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SHAWN HAGEDORN | Sovereignty threats versus valid criticisms by outsiders (opens the original)
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Leaders of Denmark, Iran and South Africa have played the patriotism card by accusing the US of bullying by threatening their sovereignty. But what if the US is promoting policies that would advance the interests of those nations? In modern constitutional democracies sovereignty explicitly resides with the people. Therefore, national leaders who selfishly undermine the interests of their people can’t credibly label valid foreign criticisms as attacks on their country’s sovereignty. The US consti
SHAWN HAGEDORN | How Africa’s geography and geology block development (opens the original)
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Africa is bigger than people realise. So are its challenges and potential. Unlike Asia, Europe or the Americas, many people in Sub-Saharan Africa subsist as smallholder farmers distant from all-season roads and navigable waterways. This ties progress to migration. In all parts of the world, but particularly in Africa, huge swathes of land have been unable to support meaningful development. About 5% of South Africa’s workforce grows food, versus about 50% in Sub-Saharan Africa and 2% in rich coun
SHAWN HAGEDORN | Trickle-down economics won’t work if growth depends on consumerism (opens the original)
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South Africa, like China, cannot achieve adequate growth by relying on domestic consumption. China must aggressively subsidise exports to maintain GDP growth momentum. Suppressed investment yields and wages provide low-cost funding and labour for projects favoured by its authoritarian government. Our national dialogue’s default position is that strong GDP growth will deliver trickle-down gains to low-income households, which will spur further GDP growth. But there isn’t a workable plan to induce
SHAWN HAGEDORN | Embrace outrage or create jobs (opens the original)
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While it’s broadly presumed we must fix our politics to fix the economy, that path will remain perilous if we don’t upgrade the fidelity of our national dialogue. Only then can we overcome our divisive politics to tackle widespread poverty and raging youth unemployment. Knowledge has long reinforced economic and political power. In recent decades the direction of travel largely reversed. Much power accrued to top knowledge curators. This coincided with ideological diversity dipping ominously at
SHAWN HAGEDORN | When societies cease to prioritise survival (opens the original)
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It is hard to argue that Covid-19 left societies wiser. Anthony Fauci retired in December 2022 after 38 years leading the agency that guides US government responses to infectious diseases. During his congressional testimony last week about Covid-era controversies, he invoked his constitutional right not to testify against himself more than 100 times. The health and protection of its people should be a government’s top priority; meanwhile, politics is largely about managing trade-offs among diver
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