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    • Friday, 4 February, 2022
      ObituaryEmmanuel Tumusiime-Mutebile
      Emmanuel Tumusiime-Mutebile, Central Bank of Uganda governor, 1949-2022

      A brilliant economist who was central to his nation’s economic revival

    • Sunday, 9 August, 2020
      African economy
      Pandemic threatens African economic success

      Fall in commodity prices benefits advanced economies

    • Thursday, 6 August, 2020
      ReviewEconomics books
      Greed Is Dead — the problematic rise of the individual

      Collier and Kay’s scathing account of economic self-interest warns of harm to communities

    • Thursday, 13 February, 2020
      Martin Wolf
      Boris Johnson’s promise to ‘level up’ will be hard to keep

      The UK’s dire productivity performance since the financial crisis needs to improve

    • Wednesday, 16 October, 2019
      Ethiopia
      Ethiopia’s path to prosperity is opening up under Abiy Ahmed

      The prime minister’s reforms are an object of fascination across Africa

    • Monday, 3 December, 2018
      ReviewBooks
      The Future of Capitalism, by Paul Collier

      A powerful dissection of contemporary failures that dares to suggest concrete reforms

    • Wednesday, 7 February, 2018
      Global Economy
      World Bank takes new approach to shine light on wealth of nations

      Study shows some countries with GDP growth actually saw per capita wealth fall

    • Thursday, 27 April, 2017
      ReviewLife & Arts
      A new deal for refugees

      Two Oxford academics argue that extra funds for countries near trouble spots could help solve the crisis

    • Sunday, 11 December, 2016
      Foreign aid
      Shifting aid to support business is the right decision

      Micro-enterprises are no substitute for proper companies, writes Paul Collier

    • Tuesday, 20 September, 2016
      Syrian crisis
      Refugees and those who flee war and strife deserve better

      The challenge is manageable but the global system remains devoid of a strategy, writes Paul Collier

    • Sunday, 4 October, 2015
      World
      Africa ties with China are about more than raw materials

      Trade and investment have been just as important as exporting resources

    • Wednesday, 16 September, 2015
      James Crabtree
      From Munich to Mumbai, bosses duck the migration issue

      In Europe and India, it has mute backers but noisy opponents, writes James Crabtree

    • Sunday, 26 July, 2015
      Global Economy
      Africa is more ready to make than it is to consume

      The problem is not a missing middle class but a missing class of organisation, writes Paul Collier

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