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Summary: Many African countries have placed economic diversification high on the policy agenda, yet they first need to define what it means in their specific structural and socioeconomic contexts.
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For decades, economic diversification has been a policy priority for low- and middle-income economies. In the words of former managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine Lagarde, “We know that economic diversification is good for growth. Diversification is also tremendously important for resilience.” Unfortunately, this goal continues to elude many African countries. In fact, the continent is home to eight of the world’s fifteen least economically diversified countries. This reality weakens the foundation of their economic transfomation and slows their pace of progress. It also makes these countries part
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Posted By Bryan Rindfuss on Fri, Apr 9, 2021 at 8:30 AM click to enlarge Angel Nevarez and Valerie Tevere,
The Bang Bang Bar, 2021. Archival Pigment Print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. 17 x 30.” Courtesy of the artists. New York-based multidisciplinary artists Angel Nevarez and Valerie Tevere have a unique and telling “how we met” story. Their first encounter wasn’t at a university, gallery or museum but on the streets of San Diego while they were protesting the Republican National Convention in 1996. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the work they’ve created collaboratively in the decades since has employed public forums to address politics, dissent and the shifting landscape around them.
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