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AI, Jobs, and Justice: Will Artificial Intelligence Deepen Global Inequality or Create a Fairer World of Work?
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Global Inequality: This article explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming work, wages, and inequality worldwide.
Africa’s Green Leap: Turning Renewables and Climate Pressure into a New Industrial Strategy
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Africa’s Green Leap: This article explores how Africa can use green industrialization—renewable energy, climate-smart manufacturing, and sustainable trade—as a pathway to economic catch-up.
Building Innovation States: What Korea and Malaysia Can Teach Africa About Funding R&D and Linking Universities to Industry
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This article asks how African countries can build “innovation states” by learning selectively from South Korea and Malaysia.
Digital Leapfrogging: How Africa Can Use Mobile Money, AI, and EdTech to Bypass 20th-Century Development Stages
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This article explores how African countries can leverage digital leapfrogging—through mobile money, artificial intelligence (AI), and education technology (EdTech)—to accelerate development without replicating the slow, carbon-intensive industrialization of the 20th century.
Vietnam’s Quiet Miracle: Industrial Policy, Rural Reforms, and How Africa Can Build Competitive Manufacturing Hubs
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Vietnam’s Quiet Miracle: This article examines how Vietnam transformed from a war-torn agrarian economy into one of the world’s most dynamic manufacturing exporters, and what African countries can realistically learn from this “quiet miracle.”
From Hanoi to Harare: Comparing Vietnam’s STEM Education Model with Africa’s Emerging Reforms
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This article compares Vietnam’s STEM education model with ongoing STEM reforms in African countries, highlighting lessons, limits, and realistic pathways for adaptation.
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