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Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
African Youth Lead Response to COVID-19
Chioma Agwuegbo of TechHer Nigeria, talks to Folashadé Soulé and Herbert Mba Aki about how the pandemic is impacting young people in Nigeria, especially young women, and how African youth are tackling the crisis.
Immaculate Deception
Never Together: Black and White People in the Postwar Economic Era
Coming out of the Great Depression, America built a middle class, but systematic discrimination kept most African-American families from being part of it
Europe’s Fateful Choices for Recovery – An Italian Perspective
To fight COVID-19, the EU must recognize that spending restraints have to go
Profits from Job Losses Will Finance Government Borrowing for COVID-19 Bailouts
COVID has meant unemployment for the many and a corporate profit-fueled windfall for the few.
Felwine Sarr : La crise du COVID-19 indique une nécessité de changement et de repenser le monde de demain
Entretien avec Pr Felwine Sarr, Professeur Titulaire des Universités et agrégé en économie à l’Université Gaston Berger de Saint-Louis au Sénégal, pour la série d’INET sur COVID-19 et l’Afrique
The Fleming Myth and the Public Sector Contribution to Discovery and Development of New Cancer Drugs
Abstract, “basic science” research is essential to drug discovery. It is also largely funded by the public sector.
We're in a Moment of Collective Trauma. But There Are Glimmers of Hope
A special note from INET board member john a. powell
Modigliani Meets Minsky: Inequality and U.S. Household Debt Since 1950
A look at the American household debt boom
Chile’s Outburst of Discontent
How the fear-of-the-new transformed a “miracle” into an aborted attempt at catching-up
Patents vs. the Pandemic