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Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, OBE, Freetown City Council, Sierra Leone
“We’re building a data system, because you can’t really manage a city if you don’t know who’s there and what’s in it.”
The Big Squeeze
Mainstream Economists Have Been Using a Misleading Inflation Model for 60 Years
Comment on Paul Krugman’s recent observations on US inflation
Carlos Lopes: The COVID-19 Crisis Presents Major Opportunities for Africa’s Structural Transformation
In this interview, Camilla Toulmin and Folashadé Soulé speak with Carlos Lopes, Professor at the Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance, University of Cape Town, Visiting Professor at Sciences Po, Paris and an Associate Fellow at Chatham House, London
"Build Back Better" Needs an Agenda for Upward Mobility
How the dream of a middle class existence collapsed, first for Blacks, then for more and more white American workers and what the Biden administration could do to retrieve the situation.
Young Scholars Want More Voices Heard in Economics
No one person or perspective holds the key to solving economic problems, says Jay Pocklington of the Institute for New Economic Thinking
An Effective Response to Europe’s Fiscal Paralysis
Individual EU member states ought to issue perpetual bonds
Cybersecurity Expert: What the Media Miss on America’s Election Risks
David Mussington, a leading expert on cybersecurity, reveals what’s worrying him, from Facebook to foreign interference.
Profits Over Human Life? ER Doctor’s Story is Fearful Lesson for U.S. Workers During Pandemic
Dr. Ming Lin spoke out about Covid safety at his hospital and was fired. He’s fighting back against a system that put profits over human life.
How Corruption is Becoming America’s Operating System
New book by Sarah Chayes reveals the country’s descent into a level of corruption usually associated with places like Nigeria and Afghanistan