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Indonesian government’s interventions in regulating prices and supplies for palm oil and its derivative products were short-lived and have instead created confusion.
The island nation is the latest economy to implode through mismanagement – for which the citizens will pay more than foreign creditors.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine will have global impacts far beyond the region directly involved in the fighting. Food prices will increase, and the effects will be felt by the most vulnerable.
Every agricultural role-player is keeping an eye on the developments in the Black Sea region.
Poor and inconsistent pricing data makes it hard to assess agricultural markets.
In coming years, Uganda’s GDP growth is set to accelerate as recent and ongoing public investments begin to yield returns.
Zimbabwe has two lost decades to move on from. Fortunately, there are many ways out.
Politicians in Europe, the US and the UK have blamed steel industry woes on artificially cheap imports.
Rather than lifting investment, Australian businesses have chosen to return cash to shareholders in the form of record dividends and share buybacks.
South Africa’s economic challenges of 2016 are largely a reflection of its inability to change in the light of global shocks.
OPEC has been declared dead in recent months as the group of oil-exporters has been unable to agree on a plan to stabilize the market. But was it really ever alive in the first place?
The downturn in the commodity boom will not automatically lead to diversification of Africa’s economies. This can only be achieved through a focus on creating learning economies driven by innovation.
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Professor of Economics, University of Glasgow
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Associate Professor, Finance, The University of Western Australia
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Lecturer in Business Law, University of Glasgow
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Professor of the Practice of International Development, Harvard Kennedy School
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Professor of Economics and Lead Researcher, Centre for Competition, Regulation and Economic Development, UJ, University of Johannesburg
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Head of Flexible Engagements, International Growth Centre
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Presidential History, Southern Methodist University
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Associate Professor in Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management, University of Leeds
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Senior Lecturer, Graduate School of Business Administration, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Geography, Durham University
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Associate Professor, Food Economics, University of Guelph
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Senior Lecturer, and Deputy Associate Dean PGR, Faculty of Humanities, University of Manchester
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Professor, Dept of Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Guelph
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Associate Dean - School of Business and Law, Edith Cowan University
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Senior Fellow, Department of Agricultural Economics, Stellenbosch University
