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Finance leaders from industrialized and major emerging economies are converging on Cape Town, South Africa for meetings of the Group of Twenty, or G-20. Gretchen Wilson reports that Africa is getting more notice thanks to a strain on global resources.

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In the 1970s and ’80s copper prices plummeted worldwide and Zambia’s mines closed, crippling that country’s economy. Gretchen Wilson visits one mine that’s now booming at the hands of Chinese investors.

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