Ibrahim Assane Mayaki

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Ibrahim Assane Mayaki, a former prime minister of Niger, is CEO of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD), the African Union Development Agency.

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Putting Africa’s Secondary Cities First
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Putting Africa’s Secondary Cities First

May 21, 2019 Ibrahim Assane Mayaki advises policymakers not to lose sight of intermediary urban areas' crucial role in economic development.

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Winning the War on Tuberculosis
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Winning the War on Tuberculosis

Oct 12, 2018 Ibrahim Assane Mayaki says global efforts to end TB will fall short unless the disease’s hotspots in Africa are contained.

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Resetting the Africa-Europe Relationship
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Resetting the Africa-Europe Relationship

Dec 5, 2017 Ibrahim Assane Mayaki says the European Union has more to gain from the African diaspora than vice versa.

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Banking on African Infrastructure
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Banking on African Infrastructure

Oct 30, 2017 Ibrahim Assane Mayaki says that the fastest way for the continent to prosper is by building a more favorable investment climate.

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Europe on a Geopolitical Fault Line

Ana Palacio

China has begun to build a parallel international order, centered on itself. If the European Union aids in its construction – even just by positioning itself on the fault line between China and the United States – it risks toppling key pillars of its own edifice and, eventually, collapsing altogether.

Is Economic Winter Coming?

Raghuram G. Rajan

Now that the old rules governing macroeconomic cycles no longer seem to apply, it remains to be seen what might cause the next recession in the United States. But if recent history is our guide, the biggest threat stems not from the US Federal Reserve or any one sector of the economy, but rather from the White House.

Will China Confront a Revolution of Rising Expectations?

Barry Eichengreen

Amid much discussion of the challenges facing the Chinese economy, the line-up of usual suspects typically excludes the most worrying scenario of all: popular unrest. While skeptics would contend that widespread protest against the regime and its policies is unlikely, events elsewhere suggest that China is not immune.