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The African Century

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    Rethinking Foreign Funding for Africa

    Kenneth Rogoff explains why outright grants are preferable to loans when it comes to supporting low-income economies.
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    Africa’s Food Security Depends on Adaptive Crops

    Agnes Kalibata & Cary Fowler urge the public and private sectors to work together to increase production of traditional indigenous staples.
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    Africa’s Place in the Emerging Global Order

    Adekeye Adebajo explains how the continent can navigate the Sino-American rivalry in a way that advances its interests.
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    Financing Nature

    Razan Khalifa Al Mubarak & Bogolo Kenewendo propose ways to unlock more public and private capital for investments in preserving and restoring the planet.
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    Africa’s Path to Green Prosperity

    Erik Berglöf highlights the potential that a young population and abundant renewable-energy resources represent.
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    Confronting Africa’s Cost-of-Living Crisis

    Hippolyte Fofack urges governments to rethink constraints on public spending and increase investment in human capital.
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    What’s Driving Africa’s Protests?

    Kehinde A. Togun highlights three fundamental issues fueling popular anger in Kenya, Nigeria, and elsewhere.
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    Africa’s Future Hinges on Revitalizing Multilateralism

    Adekeye Adebajo outlines several steps that wealthy countries can take to restore trust in the current global order.
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    Curbing Debt-Fueled Unrest in Emerging Markets

    Vera Songwe & Ishac Diwan propose a strategy for stabilizing economies that have become illiquid but are not insolvent.
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    How to Judge the New British Government’s First Budget

    Mohamed A. El-Erian

    If UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves tried to meet all the political demands that have been placed on her, her budget would likely result in disappointing growth and financial instability. Instead, the new government's first budget should be judged according to four longer-term criteria.

     lists four criteria for assessing the chancellor's attempt to meet a long list of unrealistic demands.
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    Outsourcing Our Future to For-Profit AI

    Katharina Pistor worries that we have already ceded control to self-interested private corporations and their shareholders.
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    Investments in Nature Will Decide Our Future

    Ambroise Fayolle

    At COP16 in Colombia this month, delegates from nearly 200 countries will discuss how to accelerate action to protect 30% of the planet’s land and maritime areas by 2030. Central to that goal will be unlocking more investment through public-private partnerships, de-risking mechanisms, and other innovative strategies.

     points out that biodiversity loss and ecosystem damage jeopardize all other global development goals.
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    The Roots of Europe’s Immigration Problem

    Robert Skidelsky calls attention to the conditions that lead African migrants to risk their lives crossing the Mediterranean.
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    The BRICS Still Don’t Matter

    Jim O'Neill thinks the grouping continues to show that it serves no purpose beyond generating symbolic political gestures.
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    Why Another Trump Term Would Be Worse Than the First

    Tom Ginsburg & Aziz Huq see a pattern of authoritarian movements becoming more effective when given a second shot at power.
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    The Case for Press Freedom Just Got Stronger

    Katrin Kivi highlights the findings of two new reports that illustrate the many benefits of protecting independent media.
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    China’s Pension Crisis Is Here

    Yi Fuxian argues that the country’s efforts to mitigate the effects of rapid demographic aging are too little, too late.
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    Why Must Indians Vote So Often?

    Shashi Tharoor argues that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s proposal to hold all elections on the same day is a non-starter.

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