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Calestous Juma

Calestous Juma

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Calestous Juma was Professor of the Practice of International Development at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and the author of Innovation and Its Enemies: Why People Resist New Technologies.

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  1. Africa’s Post-Brexit Opportunity
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    Africa’s Post-Brexit Opportunity

    Jul 14, 2016 Calestous Juma argues that African countries should accelerate their shift away from exports toward innovation.

  2. Innovation and Its Discontents
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    Innovation and Its Discontents

    Jul 1, 2016 Calestous Juma asks why so many people, in and out of power, reject technological progress.

  3. Bridging the World’s Genetic Divide

    Bridging the World’s Genetic Divide

    Oct 4, 2001 Calestous Juma

  4. The UN's Role in the New Diplomacy

    The UN's Role in the New Diplomacy

    Mar 31, 2001 Calestous Juma

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    The Birth of a New International Order

    Joschka Fischer sees global great-power relations taking shape around a Sino-American dominated pentarchy.
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    The World Cup Syndrome

    Raj Persaud reflects on the effects that loving the “beautiful game” can have on one’s health and finances.
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    Rebooting the World Bank

    Suma Chakrabarti & Chris Humphrey outline key reforms that could help the institution regain the trust of developing countries.
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    No Easy Exit from Zero-COVID

    S. Alex Yang & Angela Huyue Zhang propose a strategy for loosening China's pandemic restrictions without triggering a nationwide health crisis.
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    Faking It, Making It, Losing It

    Harold James

    The spectacular rise and fall of FTX and its founder Sam Bankman-Fried were driven by effective marketing, trickery, and financial speculation. In that, they bear a striking resemblance to the disastrous eighteenth-century experiment that fueled the Mississippi Company bubble and created the template for all future Ponzi schemes.

     draws parallels between the FTX collapse and economist John Law’s infamous eighteenth-century scheme in France.
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    The Regulators’ Revolt

    Howard Davies traces the rise and fall of the UK government's recent effort to wield the power to rewrite financial rules.
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    A Missed Opportunity in Bali

    Stephen S. Roach

    The summit between US President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, was, at best, a public-relations effort to provide a brief respite in the ominous progression of conflict escalation. But there was no substance, no strategy, and no path to de-escalation.

     explains why the Biden-Xi summit yielded little more than lofty rhetoric – and proposes a new approach.
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    Will Crypto Survive?

    Kenneth Rogoff assesses the strategies regulators could adopt in the aftermath of the FTX debacle.
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    Done With Deglobalization?

    Michael Spence sees reason to hope that the scales may soon tip back from international confrontation to cooperation.

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