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Ike Okonta

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Ike Okonta, an Abuja-based policy analyst and writer, is currently a fellow of the Open Society Institute, New York.

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  1. Nigeria’s Critical Election
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    Nigeria’s Critical Election

    Apr 7, 2015 Ike Okonta hopes that Muhammadu Buhari's new government finally addresses the country's numerous challenges.

  2. Sacking Sanusi

    Sacking Sanusi

    Feb 25, 2014 Ike Okonta praises Nigeria's former central bank governor for exposing high-level government corruption.

  3. Nigeria’s Poverty-Powered Insurgency
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    Nigeria’s Poverty-Powered Insurgency

    Apr 30, 2013 Ike Okonta

  4. The Nigerian Crucible
    8f1a9d0346f86fd413d99726_dr2445c.jpg Dean Rohrer

    The Nigerian Crucible

    Feb 1, 2012 Ike Okonta

  5. Nigeria’s Homegrown Terrorists
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    Nigeria’s Homegrown Terrorists

    Oct 6, 2011 Ike Okonta

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    The Supply Side of Decarbonization

    Ricardo Hausmann touts strategies that create incentives for developing countries to produce renewables and other green goods.
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    America and China Are on a Collision Course

    Nouriel Roubini

    The G7 countries may have set out to deter China without escalating the new cold war, but the perception in Beijing suggests that they failed to thread the needle at their recent summit in Hiroshima. It is now clear to all that the United States, its allies, and any partners they can recruit are committed to containing China’s rise.

     juxtaposes recent developments and current trends with diplomatic happy talk about a “thaw” in tensions.
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    Leveling the Financial Playing Field for Africa

    Amadou Hott & Mark Malloch-Brown propose ways to redress longstanding inequities and enable African-led solutions to succeed.
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    Why the Fed Is Hard to Predict

    Mohamed A. El-Erian

    The US Federal Reserve is adrift, and it has only itself to blame. Regardless of whether its policy-setting committee announces another interest-rate hike in June, its top priority now should be to address the structural weaknesses that led it astray in the first place.

     thinks the US central bank's biggest problem is not the economy but rather its own institutional shortcomings.
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    How to Quench the American West’s Thirst

    Jeffrey Frankel argues that eliminating water subsidies and implementing market pricing is better than the alternative.
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    Give America a Debt Brake

    R. James Breiding thinks the United States could learn a valuable lesson from a policy Switzerland put in place in 2003.
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    The Myth of Western Decline

    Chris Patten argues that Chinese leaders’ characterization of liberal democracy as decadent betrays their fear of it.
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    The US Debt Ceiling Debacle Is Not Over

    Kenneth Rogoff sees little reason to believe the latest last-minute deal will be anything more than a short-lived truce.
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    Anti-Semitism and Intersectionality

    Slavoj Žižek sees problems with efforts to treat hatred toward Jews separately from other forms of bigotry.

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