
The Great Services Illusion
Sep 8, 2020 offers four reasons why industrialization remains the key to poorer countries’ development.
Célestin Monga, a former managing director at the United Nations Industrial Development Organization and 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 author, most recently, of The Oxford Handbook of Structural Transformation and the co-author (with Justin Yifu Lin) of Beating the Odds: Jump-Starting Developing Countries.
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.
Dec 26, 2019 proposes three sets of policies to help tackle unemployment and underemployment on the continent.
Tackling the COVID-19 pandemic and engineering an economic recovery are only two of the challenges facing new US President Joe Biden. Amid deep social divisions and the continued threat of right-wing extremist violence, Biden must also try to re-establish democratic political norms and restore trust in American leadership at home and abroad.