
How Africa’s Economies Can Hedge Against COVID-19
Mar 27, 2020 argues that trade integration would strengthen the continent's resilience as a global recession looms.
Ibrahim Assane Mayaki, former Prime Minister of Niger, is CEO of the African Union Development Agency’s New Partnership for Africa’s Development (AUDA-NEPAD).
Mar 27, 2020 argues that trade integration would strengthen the continent's resilience as a global recession looms.
May 21, 2019 advises policymakers not to lose sight of intermediary urban areas' crucial role in economic development.
Oct 12, 2018 says global efforts to end TB will fall short unless the disease’s hotspots in Africa are contained.
Dec 5, 2017 says the European Union has more to gain from the African diaspora than vice versa.
Oct 30, 2017 says that the fastest way for the continent to prosper is by building a more favorable investment climate.
Many would regard the middle of a pandemic-induced economic crisis as the wrong time to sound the alarm about the potential dangers of profligate government spending. But as US President Joe Biden’s proposed $1.9 trillion economic rescue plan works its way through Congress, it is not only Republicans who are asking whether providing too much fiscal stimulus could be just as risky as delivering too little.