
An Africa Roadmap for Biden
Jan 27, 2021 explains how the new administration can engage constructively with the continent on three levels.
Célestin Monga, a former managing director at the United Nations Industrial Development Organization and a former senior economic adviser at the World Bank, is Visiting Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. He is the co-editor, (with Justin Yifu Lin) of The Oxford Handbook of Structural Transformation and the co-author (with Justin Yifu Lin) of Beating the Odds: Jump-Starting Developing Countries.
Jan 27, 2021 explains how the new administration can engage constructively with the continent on three levels.
Sep 8, 2020 offers four reasons why industrialization remains the key to poorer countries’ development.
May 5, 2020 shows why dismantling cross-border supply networks in response to the COVID-19 pandemic would be self-defeating.
Mar 27, 2020 proposes four sets of measures to help mitigate the pandemic’s economic impact on the continent.
Feb 24, 2020 argues that the current CFA franc currency union has failed and that a new monetary strategy is necessary.
To help finance its massive post-pandemic infrastructure investment package, US President Joe Biden’s administration plans to increase corporate taxes and reduce the scope for profit-shifting by US-based multinationals. Although the proposed tax changes are likely to face opposition from congressional Republicans and big business, are any of the alternatives better?