HeyJaredYaw's Brief: Guns, Trade, Cobalt & Africa Beyond Colonialism
Newsletter on the intersections developmental econ, geopolitics, finance, and African history. Bio: Ghanaian-American, MIT grad, Data Analytics & Product Manager @ Big Entertainment firm. Ex- Aerospace Engineer. Not an expert, but always learning.
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Nigeria’s Painful Experiment With Structural Adjustment (opens the original)
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<img alt="Joao Bernardo Vieira, le président de la République de Guinée-Bissau et Abdou Diouf, résident de la République du Sénégal, accueillis par Ibrahim..." class="sizing-normal" height="412" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_
The 7K Q&A: Kete Diplomacy, Wedding Bells, and the Mechanics of Sovereign Debt (opens the original)
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7K+ subs! Thank you all for your support. To celebrate this milestone, I opened the floor for a Q&A, and some of you DM’ed me your questions. <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="502" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Efzm!,w_1456,c_limit,f_a
How Nigeria did IMF Reforms Without the IMF (opens the original)
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In August 1985, military officers overthrew Muhammadu Buhari in Nigeria’s 6th post-independence coup. Major General Ibrahim Babangida, a veteran of the three previous coups, took over. <div class="captioned-i
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