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Kandeh K. Yumkella

Kandeh K. Yumkella

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Kandeh K. Yumkella, a member of Sierra Leone’s Parliament, is Founder and CEO of the Energy Nexus Network. He is a former United Nations under-secretary-general and chair of UN-Energy and a former CEO and a special representative of the secretary-general for Sustainable Energy for All.

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  1. Death by Dirty Cooking
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    Death by Dirty Cooking

    Nov 4, 2019 Kandeh K. Yumkella notes that household air pollution, caused by use of antiquated fuels, kills 4.3 million people per year.

  2. Energy, Employment, and Migration in Africa
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    Energy, Employment, and Migration in Africa

    Sep 16, 2019 Kandeh K. Yumkella argues that investment in distributed renewables could fill a lage part of the continent's jobs deficit.

  3. The Energy Internet

    The Energy Internet

    Jan 27, 2014 Kandeh K. Yumkella proposes three coalitions that could catalyze the Third Industrial Revolution.

  4. The Power of the Prize
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    The Power of the Prize

    Jun 11, 2013 Kandeh K. Yumkella on how the promise of reward stimulates innovation.

  5. Power and Progress
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    Power and Progress

    Jun 18, 2012 Helge Lund & Kandeh K. Yumkella

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    The End of Georgia’s European Dream?

    Salome Samadashvili

    Initial evidence suggests that the victory of the pro-Russian Georgian Dream party in the recent parliamentary election reflects widespread fraud. If the West fails to support democratic opposition parties in challenging the results, Georgia’s 30-year-old democracy could come to an end.

     urges Western leaders to take steps to halt the country’s slide into authoritarianism.
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    Belarus in the Dock

    Gabija Grigaitė-Daugirdė & Aarif Abraham explain why Lithuania is requesting an International Criminal Court investigation into its neighbor.
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    Where Financial Innovation Meets Sustainable Development

    Jordan Schwartz explains why new instruments must be standardized and integrated into developing countries’ economic policies.
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    No President Can Revive US Manufacturing Employment

    Robert Z. Lawrence explains why there is no going back to the heyday of middle-class factory jobs for low-skilled workers.
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    Is Political Polling Broken?

    Michael A. Bailey urges pollsters to stop thinking in terms of random samples and instead focus on diagnosing non-response bias.
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    Don’t Dismiss the BRICS

    Joschka Fischer thinks it would be a serious mistake for Western strategists to ignore the bloc and what it represents.
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    Can India Become a Developed Economy by Mid-Century?

    Anne O. Krueger urges policymakers to resume key structural reforms and streamline regulations that stifle business activity.
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    Why Many Workers Now Vote Republican

    Eric Posner explains how the failures of neoliberalism came to benefit the traditional party of business.
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    Japan’s Electoral Stalemate

    Takatoshi Ito considers the political and economic implications of the ruling bloc’s loss of its parliamentary majority.

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