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Wale Edun is Finance Minister of Nigeria and Chair of the African Governors Forum at the World Bank.

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  1. What Climate-Vulnerable Developing Countries Need Right Now
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    What Climate-Vulnerable Developing Countries Need Right Now

    Jun 21, 2024 Mia Amor Mottley & Wale Edun propose a blueprint to unlock financing and kickstart investment in adaptation and clean energy.

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    Why Young Europeans Are Embracing the Far Right

    Ngaire Woods urges policymakers to reconsider both their message and their medium to reach disaffected younger voters.
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    Rethinking How to Address Irregular Migration from Africa

    Linguère Mously Mbaye calls for a paradigm shift in how immigration policies are discussed, designed, and implemented.
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    The Digital Economy’s Growing Time Tax

    Diane Coyle explains why, instead of simplifying daily life, technological innovation is making it more burdensome.
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    How South Korea Broke the Development Mold

    Keun Lee attributes the country's economic success to the government's willingness to stray from prescribed orthodoxy.
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    The Dominican Success Story

    Iván Duque Márquez attributes President Luis Abinader’s landslide re-election to his pro-business policies and social spending.
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    The Profit Trap

    Jean-Baptiste Wautier

    Purpose must replace profit as the primary objective driving companies and markets. Although restructuring capitalism around this principle may seem like a tall order, it is not only possible but necessary.

     considers why capitalism is creating problems instead of solving them, and how to save the system from itself.
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    From the Washington Consensus to the Berlin Declaration

    Dani Rodrik, et al.

    Dozens of leading economists and practitioners convened in Berlin at the end of May for a summit organized by the Forum for a New Economy. Remarkably, the summit led to something resembling a new understanding that may replace the decades-long reign of neoliberal orthodoxy.

     tout a new understanding by leading economists about what policymakers must do to preempt the populist threat.
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    The Eclipse of the Petrodollar

    Hippolyte Fofack shows how digitalization and geopolitical risk are giving rise to alternative payment mechanisms.
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    Russia’s Triple Win in the South Caucasus

    Djoomart Otorbaev deciphers the causes and implications of the shifting allegiances of Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Georgia.

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