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Kingsley Moghalu

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Kingsley Moghalu, a former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, is President of the African School of Governance, an independent, pan-African graduate school in Kigali, Rwanda.

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  1. Fixing Africa’s Governance Crisis Must Come First
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    Fixing Africa’s Governance Crisis Must Come First

    Oct 23, 2024 Kingsley Moghalu foresees home-grown educational institutions equipping the continent’s leaders with public-policy skills.

  2. Africa Can’t Prosper Without Regional Trade
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    Africa Can’t Prosper Without Regional Trade

    May 24, 2024 Kingsley Moghalu argues that the continent has been missing a key ingredient of robust, sustained growth.

  3. Nigeria’s Make-or-Break Election
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    Nigeria’s Make-or-Break Election

    Feb 14, 2023 Kingsley Moghalu outlines the myriad challenges and opportunities facing the troubled country’s next president.

  4. Africa’s WTO Moment
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    Africa’s WTO Moment

    Oct 21, 2020 Kingsley Moghalu explains why Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala should be the World Trade Organization's next director-general.

  5. Africa’s Economic Reality Check
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    Africa’s Economic Reality Check

    Feb 19, 2016 Kingsley Moghalu urges the continent's policymakers to stop relying on commodity exports to sustain growth.

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    Tariff Man’s Risky Bet

    Carla Norrlöf

    In betting that the economic fallout from his sweeping new tariffs will be worth the gains in border security, US President Donald Trump is gambling with America’s long-term influence and prosperity. In the future, more countries will have even stronger reasons to try to reduce their reliance on the United States.

     thinks Donald Trump's trade policies will undermine the very goals they aim to achieve.
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    The Case for Abolishing Nuclear Weapons

    Melissa Parke calls for eliminating arsenals to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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    A Sputnik Moment for AI?

    Daron Acemoglu

    While America’s AI industry arguably needed shaking up, the news of a Chinese startup beating Big Tech at its own game raises some difficult questions. Fortunately, if US tech leaders and policymakers can take the right lessons from DeepSeek's success, we could all end up better for it.

     considers what an apparent Chinese breakthrough means for the US tech industry, and innovation more broadly.
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    Danish Media’s United Stand Against Big Tech

    Karen Rønde urges all publishers to bargain collectively to secure the fair compensation quality journalism requires.
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    East Asia Braces for Trump 2.0

    Takatoshi Ito warns America’s key regional allies to be prepared to make concessions to the new US administration.
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    Africa Needs Mineral Security, Too

    Daniel M. Franks & Rüya Perincek highlight the necessity of building local value chains tailored to the continent’s economic realities.
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    Mitigating AI’s Climate Costs

    Sherif Elsayed-Ali proposes ways to realize the technology’s potential while mitigating its massive carbon footprint.
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    What Does Trump 2.0 Mean for Venezuela?

    Moisés Naím thinks the Maduro regime’s fate – and the country’s future – will be largely shaped by US policymakers.
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    Does Globalization Have a Future?

    Joseph S. Nye, Jr. worries that we will end up with only harmful long-distance dependencies, rather than beneficial ones.

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