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Perseus Mlambo is the founder and CEO of Zazu, a fintech company simplifying access to financial services in Sub-Saharan Africa. Previously, he worked in the Ethics Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Geneva. 

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  1. Empowering Africa’s Digital Entrepreneurs
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    Empowering Africa’s Digital Entrepreneurs

    Apr 20, 2020 Perseus Mlambo & Lydia Chiseche Ngoma identify what governments must do to seize the opportunities of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

  2. Africa’s Digital Generation Gap
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    Africa’s Digital Generation Gap

    Feb 21, 2019 Perseus Mlambo warns that the continent's aged leaders are threatening to stifle the economy of the future.

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    Will Crypto Save the Dollar?

    Lucrezia Reichlin asks whether the Trump administration's stablecoin strategy can preserve the greenback's global hegemony.
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    The Tragedy of Zhou Enlai

    Minxin Pei

    The reputation of China's longest-serving premier has fared far better than that of the Maoist regime he faithfully served. Zhou's political survival skills enabled him to survive many purges, and even to steer Mao away from potential disasters, but he could not escape the Chairman's cruelty, even at the end of his life.

     reflects on the complicated life and legacy of the renowned diplomat who was Mao Zedong’s dutiful lieutenant.
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    How Liberals Lost America

    Andrés Velasco attributes Donald Trump’s return to power to Democrats’ embrace of both moral neutrality and moral preachiness.
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    Norway Should Cede Its War Windfall to Ukraine

    Håvard Halland & Knut Anton Mork say that the government's justifications for its war profiteering are disingenuous and short-sighted.
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    Is DeepSeek Really a Threat?

    Amar Bhidé

    If vindicated, DeepSeek’s technology could be to large language models what Nikola Tesla’s breakthroughs with alternating current were to electrification. While it cannot overcome the unavoidable limitations of backward-looking statistical models, it could make their price performance good enough for wider use.

     explains what a purported Chinese AI breakthrough does and does not mean for the industry.
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    What’s Wrong With Germany’s Economy?

    Michael Spence thinks the country’s prospects depend significantly on closing the digital-technology gap with the US and China.
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    When Companies Fail to Learn, They Learn to Fail

    Ricardo Hausmann explains how the inability to identify and address knowledge gaps can doom even the most promising projects.
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    How to Make Carbon Pricing Work for Africa

    Rim Berahab & Otaviano Canuto argue that policies must be structured to facilitate, not obstruct, the continent’s shift to renewables.
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    Green Free Trade in a Protectionist Age

    Ma Jun envisions regional arrangements that facilitate the exchange of climate-friendly goods and services.

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