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Jireh Mwamukonda

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Jireh Mwamukonda, a Resolution Project fellow and Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program alumna, co-founded the Together We Can Initiative, which focuses on community development through youth empowerment in Malawi.

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  1. Harnessing Malawi’s Youth Bulge
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    Harnessing Malawi’s Youth Bulge

    Jul 6, 2020 Jireh Mwamukonda explains how an impoverished landlocked democracy can make the most of its demographic boom.

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    Can Trump Dump the Dollar?

    Barry Eichengreen argues that while the incoming administration could certainly weaken the greenback, the US would not benefit.
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    A No-Brainer for Global Growth and US Jobs

    Joseph E. Stiglitz & Mark Weisbrot call for a new issuance of the International Monetary Fund’s international reserve asset.
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    What Will Trump Do to the US Economy?

    From cutting taxes to raising tariffs to eroding central-bank independence, US President-elect Donald Trump has made a wide range of economic promises, many of which threaten to blow up the deficit and fuel inflation. But powerful institutional, political, and economic constraints, together with Trump’s capriciousness, have spurred disagreement about how worried we should be.

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    Europe’s CEOs Must Speak Up on AI Regulation

    Sylvain Duranton & Kirsten Rulf worry that the drafting of legal frameworks is being left to just a few players.
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    An American Catastrophe

    Jan T. Gross wonders how long it will take the United States to rebuild what Donald Trump is about to destroy.
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    The Truth About Migration

    Ian Goldin

    Anti-immigration politicians like US President-elect Donald Trump frequently portray migrants as displacing native workers and straining social security systems. But studies consistently show that increased migration brings enormous economic benefits to both host and origin countries.

     warns that stricter border controls often exacerbate the very problems they aim to solve.
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    Is It the Hour of Europe Again?

    Daniel Gros urges European leaders to support Ukraine, politically and financially, if Donald Trump abandons it.
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    Are High-Skill Immigrants a Problem?

    Daron Acemoglu highlights some underappreciated risks of policies like the United States’ H-1B visa program.
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    Fundamentalist Perverts

    Slavoj Žižek regards most violent religious conservatism as merely an inauthentic expression of resentment.

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