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Akinwumi A. Adesina

Akinwumi A. Adesina

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Akinwumi A. Adesina is President of the African Development Bank.

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    The Sovereign-Debt Crunch

    The steep economic downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic will likely trigger a wave of defaults among highly indebted developing and emerging-market countries. An orderly international sovereign debt restructuring mechanism is arguably needed now more than ever – but will private creditors sign up?

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    The Antitrust Anti-Consensus

    Niamh Dunne

    The lawsuit seeking to break up Facebook, filed in the United States this week by the Federal Trade Commission and 46 US states, may be shocking, but it should come as no surprise. In three recent books, leading progressive scholars offer diverse arguments to show why the antitrust regime of the past half-century is no longer fit for purpose.

     reviews three recent books contributing to the vibrant new debate on competition law and its discontents.
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    The Costs of Merkel’s Surrender to Hungarian and Polish Extortion

    George Soros

    German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been laboring under enormous pressure to prevent a veto of the European Union's 2021-27 budget and COVID-19 recovery fund. But the compromise she reached with Hungary and Poland is the worst of all possible worlds. 

     warns that the German chancellor's compromise on the rule of law will dent hard-won confidence in the EU.
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