Mr. DeSeve was also Special Assistant to the Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and Director of Finance for the City of Philadelphia.

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"We have had no requests for additional finance, to cope with the oil increases, " Sanjeev Gupta, Assistant Director of the IMF's African department told the BBC.

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Aaron Eitan Meyer recently received his Juris Doctor degree from Touro Law Center, and is currently Assistant to the Director at the Legal Project of the Middle East Forum and Legal Correspondent to the Terror Finance Blog.

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