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Kanayo F.  Nwanze

Kanayo F. Nwanze

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Kanayo F. Nwanze is President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the first recipient of the Africa Food Prize.

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  1. Refugees and Rural Poverty
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    Refugees and Rural Poverty

    Sep 9, 2016 Kanayo F. Nwanze makes the case for focusing on where poverty is concentrated in addressing migrant flows.

  2. Harnessing the Remittance Boom
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    Harnessing the Remittance Boom

    May 18, 2013 Kanayo F. Nwanze on the enormous development potential of remittances to rural areas.

  3. Small Farms’ Large Benefits
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    Small Farms’ Large Benefits

    Sep 21, 2012 Kanayo F. Nwanze

  4. Climate-Smart Smallholders
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    Climate-Smart Smallholders

    Mar 13, 2012 Paul Kagame & Kanayo F. Nwanze

  5. The Road to Food Security
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    The Road to Food Security

    Aug 20, 2010 Kanayo F. Nwanze

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    Economists’ Way Out of the Wilderness

    James K. Galbraith argues that the continued dominance of nineteenth-century thinking has resulted in a catalogue of failure.
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    Trump the Revolutionary Isolationist

    Shlomo Ben-Ami

    America's president subscribes to a brand of isolationism that has waxed and waned throughout US history, but has its roots in the two-century-old Monroe Doctrine. This is bad news for nearly everyone, because it implies acceptance of a world order based on spheres of influence, as envisioned by China and Russia.

    hears echoes of the Monroe Doctrine in the US president's threats to acquire Greenland.
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    How the Trump Administration Can Hit Its Growth Target

    Glenn Hubbard urges policymakers to focus on the three pillars of increased productivity.
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    Trump’s First Test Will Be the Bond Market

    Jim O'Neill

    Financial markets and official economic indicators over the past few weeks give policymakers around the world plenty to contemplate. Was the recent spike in bond yields a sufficient warning to Donald Trump and his team, or will they still follow through with inflationary stimulus, tariff, and immigration policies?

    wonders if recent market signals will keep the new administration’s radicalism in check.
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    The TikTok Boomerang

    Angela Huyue Zhang thinks the US government's ban on the app has left it in an untenable position.
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    Turning the Financial Tide for Small Island States

    Maya Delaney & Aminath Shauna tout the potential of green and blue bonds to protect critical ecosystems and build economic resilience.
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    School Meals Provide Food for Thought – and Fuel for Development

    Gordon Brown & Kevin Watkins tout universal nutrition programs in lower-income countries to mitigate a lost decade for poor children.
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    A House Gutted by Fire

    Terry Lynn Karl blames the inferno now consuming Los Angeles County squarely on greenhouse-gas emissions.
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    False Economies

    William H. Janeway highlights the high cost of the single-minded focus on efficiency that has come to dominate the discipline.

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