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Hanan Morsy is Deputy Executive Secretary and Chief Economist at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa.

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  1. Reforming the Global Debt Architecture
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    Reforming the Global Debt Architecture

    Jul 3, 2023 Hanan Morsy proposes fixing the G20 Common Framework and giving African countries a seat at the policymaking table.

  2. Navigating the “New Normal” for African Schools
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    Navigating the “New Normal” for African Schools

    Mar 26, 2021 Hanan Morsy provides alarming evidence of pandemic-driven closures' impact on human capital and inequality.

  3. How Africa Can Harness the Fourth Industrial Revolution
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    How Africa Can Harness the Fourth Industrial Revolution

    Aug 18, 2020 Hanan Morsy calls for an overhaul of education systems to close a persistent and growing skills gap.

  4. Addressing Africa’s Skills Mismatch
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    Addressing Africa’s Skills Mismatch

    Jan 14, 2020 Hanan Morsy identifies three steps the continent's governments should take to reduce mismatches between jobs and skills.

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    In Praise of First-Past-the-Post

    Andrés Velasco explains why Britain’s electoral system is better than all the plausible alternatives.
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    Peacebuilding in the Middle East Requires Women

    Anne-Marie Slaughter & Xanthe Scharff argue that negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians must no longer be the province of men.
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    Macron and Europe’s Centrists Are Out of Good Options

    Yanis Varoufakis shows that an intractable economic conundrum lies behind the current impasse in French politics.
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    Immigration Does Not Start at the US Border

    Carlos Alvarado-Quesada laments the failure of Republicans and Democrats alike to address the root causes of migration.
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    Will AI Kill Off Money?

    Jean-Pierre Landau considers some of the underappreciated implications of an economy run entirely by machines.
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    A Philosopher for Our Times

    Enrique Krauze shows that, given rising illiberalism, the seventeenth-century thinker Baruch Spinoza is as relevant as ever.
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    A New Worldview for Troubled Times

    Dennis J. Snower proposes four principles to guide policymaking and global negotiations in the age of climate change.
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    Navigating Today’s Frothy Financial Markets

    Dambisa Moyo offers a basic framework for assessing the risk of new bubbles and their potential spillover effects.
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    An Arab Spring for Bangladesh?

    M. Niaz Asadullah argues that young protestors could help the country chart a democratic course and achieve sustainable growth.

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