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Kingsley Moghalu

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Kingsley Moghalu, a former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, is President of the African School of Governance, an independent, pan-African graduate school in Kigali, Rwanda.

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  1. Fixing Africa’s Governance Crisis Must Come First
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    Fixing Africa’s Governance Crisis Must Come First

    Oct 23, 2024 Kingsley Moghalu foresees home-grown educational institutions equipping the continent’s leaders with public-policy skills.

  2. Africa Can’t Prosper Without Regional Trade
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    Africa Can’t Prosper Without Regional Trade

    May 24, 2024 Kingsley Moghalu argues that the continent has been missing a key ingredient of robust, sustained growth.

  3. Nigeria’s Make-or-Break Election
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    Nigeria’s Make-or-Break Election

    Feb 14, 2023 Kingsley Moghalu outlines the myriad challenges and opportunities facing the troubled country’s next president.

  4. Africa’s WTO Moment
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    Africa’s WTO Moment

    Oct 21, 2020 Kingsley Moghalu explains why Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala should be the World Trade Organization's next director-general.

  5. Africa’s Economic Reality Check
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    Africa’s Economic Reality Check

    Feb 19, 2016 Kingsley Moghalu urges the continent's policymakers to stop relying on commodity exports to sustain growth.

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    Trump at the Gates

    Joschka Fischer urges Europeans to recognize that they are now on their own in an increasingly dangerous world.
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    The End of Progress?

    Joseph E. Stiglitz

    Though the United States has long led the world in advancing basic science and technology, it is hard to see how this can continue under President Donald Trump and the country’s ascendant oligarchy. America’s rejection of Enlightenment values will have dire consequences.

     predicts that Donald Trump’s second administration will be defined by its rejection of Enlightenment values.
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    China’s Trump Dilemma

    Yanis Varoufakis

    Will the China hawks in Donald Trump’s administration railroad him into a confrontation that transcends tariffs and embraces financial sanctions of the type the US and the European Union imposed on Russia? If they do, China's leaders will have to decide whether to decouple from the dollar-based international monetary system.

     thinks the real choice facing Chinese leaders may be whether to challenge the dollar's hegemony head-on.
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    The Key to Narrowing the Development Gap

    Pascal Lamy, et al. explain how investments in African agri-food systems can advance many of the Sustainable Development Goals.
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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 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 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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