
How Africa Can Adapt to the Digital Revolution
Aug 12, 2019 & urge the continent's policymakers to take a more innovative and experimental approach to economic development.
Kartik Akileswaran is Deputy Lead of the Inclusive Growth and Private Sector Development Practice at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (TBI), and was previously Ethiopia Manufacturing and Investment Adviser at TBI.
Aug 12, 2019 & urge the continent's policymakers to take a more innovative and experimental approach to economic development.
Huge fiscal and monetary stimulus programs have sparked a growing debate about whether advanced economies may sooner or later experience the sort of rapid price growth last seen a generation ago. While stimulus advocates point to current weak demand and the public’s deeply ingrained low-inflation expectations, anxious hawks fear that a new and dangerous global inflationary consensus may be taking hold.