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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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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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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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Interdependence
How Interdependence Redefines Influence in Today’s World
Power is changing its form. The traditional image of a nation standing tall behind its borders, projecting...
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Classical, Realist Understanding of the Concept of Power
I’ve spent much of my professional life building systems in finance, agriculture, logistics, and insurance,...
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The Throughput of Ideas and Why Innovation Depends on Absorption, Not Inspiration
The Throughput of Ideas and Why Innovation Depends on Absorption, Not Inspiration.
Some organisations don’t fail because they lack ideas. In fact, this is true for many startups. They...
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Credit Risk
When Everyday Credit Becomes a Risk to Urban Stability.
In the busy streets of Accra, a young executive assistant enters a local waakye spot. Instead of paying...
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