Brahima Coulibaly

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Brahima Coulibaly, a senior fellow and director of the Africa Growth Initiative at the Brookings Institution, is Chief Economist of the Emerging Market Economies group at the Board of Governors of the US Federal Reserve System.

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Making Globalization Work for Africa
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Making Globalization Work for Africa

May 30, 2019 Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala & Brahima Coulibaly ask why the ratio of African incomes to those in advanced economies has fallen since the early 1980s.

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Africa’s Alternative Path to Development
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Africa’s Alternative Path to Development

May 3, 2018 Brahima Coulibaly describes research suggesting that services could sustain the same growth rates as manufacturing.

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Is Africa Still Rising?
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Is Africa Still Rising?

Oct 4, 2017 Brahima Coulibaly rebuts skeptics who have concluded that the continent's tepid aggregate growth is here to stay.

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Africa’s Race Against the Machines
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Africa’s Race Against the Machines

Jun 16, 2017 Brahima Coulibaly worries that labor-replacing technologies will derail progress toward sustainable industrialization.

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A COVID-19 Emergency Response Plan

Larry Hatheway

The rapid escalation of the COVID-19 crisis may be setting the stage for a global recession. Economic policymakers have no time to waste in preparing a response – preferably one that makes full use of low and falling bond yields, below-target inflation, and the lessons of the last recession.

The West’s Final Countdown?

Joschka Fischer

With the US presidential election approaching, no one can say they didn't foresee the possibility of Donald Trump winning a second term – an event that would pose an existential threat to the very idea of "the West." So why are European leaders spending their time squabbling over agriculture subsidies?