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Inflation
Lower Inflation does not mean Lower Prices.
In Ghana today, a quiet but important economic shift is taking place. After a period of intense price...
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Free Market
 We’re not competing in a free market. We never were.
We like to believe that markets run the world. We like to believe that capital flows according to logic....
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Constructivism
The constructivist insight that our international system is a social construct
International politics often appears governed by indisputable laws. States pursue power, mistrust rivals,...
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The Uneven Roads of Entrepreneurship
The Uneven Roads of Entrepreneurship
In every generation of entrepreneurs, there’s a story we often tell ourselves. We believe that...
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Dr-Maxwell-Among
Lessons from the Youth Economic Forum 2026
Entrepreneurship has taken on a cinematic quality in the digital era. It is depicted through curated...
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Strategic Partnerships
How Modern Diplomacy is being Rewritten with Strategic Partnerships
If you look at how global diplomacy is developing today, you’ll see an interesting trend. Countries continue...
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Author - Dr. Maxwell Ampong
Work-Life Balance is a Myth (here’s what I do instead)
At the start of every year, I notice the same wave of articles. Perhaps you do too. They promise that...
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What Economists Get Right (and Wrong) When They Write
What Economists Get Right (and Wrong) When They Write
In economics, ideas rarely fail because they are wrong. More often, they fail because they are badly...
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The Infrastructure of Trust
The Infrastructure of Trust
We talk endlessly about the infrastructure of roads, bridges, power stations, data cables, and so on,...
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Interdependence-1
How Postcolonialism Rewrites the Story of World Politics
For over a hundred years, the study of International Relations (IR) has been shaped by a handful of big...
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Global_South
Dependency Theory and the Condition of the Poor in the Developing World
For decades, the global economy has promised convergence. The message has been straightforward: open...
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Global Law-Making
Why Global Law-Making Has Stalled, and What Still Works.
There was a time when the world could sit down and write new rules. The decades after 1945 saw an extraordinary...
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