Simplice A. Asongu

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Simplice A. Asongu is Lead Economist and Director of the African Governance and Development Institute.

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Can a West African Currency Union Work?
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Can a West African Currency Union Work?

Oct 15, 2019 Simplice A. Asongu outlines the challenges facing the 15 ECOWAS countries as they attempt to launch the ECO next year.

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Liberal Democracy in Africa Can Wait
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Liberal Democracy in Africa Can Wait

Jan 16, 2018 Simplice A. Asongu argues that political and economic stability are more important than free and fair elections.

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Who’s Really Threatening Europe?
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Who’s Really Threatening Europe?

Mar 21, 2017 Simplice A. Asongu puts the onus on immigration opponents to produce evidence supporting their incendiary claims.

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Building Africa’s Knowledge Economy
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Building Africa’s Knowledge Economy

Aug 17, 2016 Simplice A. Asongu provides a road map for making the continent globally competitive in the twenty-first century.

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Africa’s Middle Passage to Development
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Africa’s Middle Passage to Development

Mar 9, 2016 Simplice A. Asongu advocates fusing the Washington Consensus policies and China's emphasis on political stability.

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The White Swans of 2020

Nouriel Roubini

Financial markets remain blissfully in denial of the many predictable global crises that could come to a head this year, particularly in the months before the US presidential election. In addition to the increasingly obvious risks associated with climate change, at least four countries want to destabilize the US from within.

Pariah India

Shashi Tharoor

For three decades, India's self-branding as the world’s fastest-growing free-market democracy worked, with world leaders queuing up to visit New Delhi and burdening a generation of diplomatic protocol officers. But in a matter of months, it has all begun to fall apart.

Social Democracy Beats Democratic Socialism

Daron Acemoglu

Now that US Senator Bernie Sanders has emerged as a leading contender for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, his brand of democratic socialism warrants closer scrutiny. Simply put, it is neither a close approximation of the "Nordic model" that Sanders often invokes nor a solution to what ails the American economy.