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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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  1. Will France Derail West Africa's Common Currency?
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    Will France Derail West Africa's Common Currency?

    Nov 10, 2021 Simplice A. Asongu argues that President Emmanuel Macron is undermining his promise to rebalance relations with the continent.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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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    Revealing an Invisible Health Threat

    Angela Bandemehr & Albert Park tout deployment of hand-held X-ray devices to prevent lead poisoning in low- and middle-income countries.
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    Putin’s War Is Fueling Russian Stagflation

    Anders Åslund thinks a weakening economy will soon become a serious constraint on Vladimir Putin’s war machine.
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    What AI Means for Growth and Jobs

    Philippe Aghion, et al. think the technology has great potential to boost productivity without harming employment.
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    Shock-Proofing the UK Economy

    Mohamed A. El-Erian

    No country wants external developments to drive up its borrowing costs and weaken its currency, which is what the UK is facing today, together with serious cyclical and structural challenges. But if the British government responds appropriately, recent market volatility might turn out to have a silver lining.

     urges the government to communicate better what it is doing to boost resilient growth – and to do more.
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    As Trump Returns, Sino-Indian Relations Are Changing

    Debasish Roy Chowdhury explains why one of America’s key allies is hedging its bets amid escalating global tensions.
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    Ricardo Hausmann on immigration, climate finance, economic complexity, and more

    Ricardo Hausmann urges the US to issue more H1-B visas, argues that Europe must become a military superpower in its own right, applies the “growth diagnostics” framework to Venezuela, and more.
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    Will Trump Crack the Mystery of COVID’s Origin?

    Brahma Chellaney urges the incoming US administration to tighten rules governing risky “gain-of-function” research.
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    Social Media as It Should Be

    Robin Berjon explains how the Bluesky model could restore the original promise of the internet.
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    Trump’s Greenland Grab

    Carl Bildt

    Now that Donald Trump is returning to the White House, he believes that it is an “absolute necessity” for the United States to have “ownership and control” of Greenland. But as an autonomous Danish territory where the US military already operates, Greenland has no reason to abandon its current political arrangement.

     explains why the US president-elect's threats to seize the Danish territory are so dangerous.

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