My latest blog, a new report “One Voice. One Strategy” (with livestream link to watch the launch in Pretoria on Sept. 9), and a few new pieces you may have missed: globalsouthperspectives.substack.com/p/one-voice-...
Fadhel Kaboub
@fadhelkaboub.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Economics at Denison University, President of the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity, Author of Global South Perspectives on Substack https://globalsouthperspectives.substack.com
Here is my take on the SDGs, published by UN-DESA on the SDG Blog. desapublications.un.org/un-desa-voic...
The SDGs need more than financing. They need structural transformation.
By Fadhel Kaboub, Associate Professor of Economics, Denison University; President, Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity; Member of the UN High-Level Advisory Board on Economic and Social Affair...
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Join us on Sunday September 6 at noon EDT for a panel titled “Permanent Crisis/Permanent War? Who wants it? Who benefits? Who cares?” RSVP here: shorturl.at/OS1l0
Join us on Sunday September 6 at noon EDT for a panel titled “Permanent Crisis/Permanent War? Who wants it? Who benefits? Who cares?” RSVP here: shorturl.at/OS1l0
www.worldpoliticsreview.com/france-east-... Fadhel Kaboub: “If the summit in Nairobi is not going to undo those old colonial relations,” he said, “then it’s just greenwashing the same old engagement with the continent.”
Austerity measures work on paper. They fail in practice. The reality: short-term gains with long-term setbacks. New policy brief by guest expert @fadhelkaboub.bsky.social explains why short-term fixes to #GlobalSouth debt crises keep producing new ones: gsphub.org/publications... #DebtReform
Debt crises in the #GlobalSouth aren't isolated incidents — they're the predictable outcome of an architecture that manages symptoms rather than fixing root causes. Read more insights from our new policy brief by guest expert @fadhelkaboub.bsky.social: gsphub.org/publications...
“A world less dependent on oil would be less vulnerable to the weaponization of tanker routes, refinery disruptions, and sudden fuel-price shocks,” adding that “a renewables-based system does not make peace automatic, but it does make energy blackmail much harder.” fpif.org/a-fossil-fue...
Fadhel Kaboub answers questions about Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) and Pan-African Economic Development, Structural Transformation, Monetary Sovereignty, Payment Systems, and more. youtu.be/HKZpONNg9Ko
MMT & Pan-African Economic Development~ Fadhel Kaboub
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The world needs $2.4 trillion a year to address the climate crisis. It's getting $136.7 billion — mostly in loans. The countries least responsible for climate change are being asked to borrow their way out of it, sinking deeper into debt in the process. Learn more: gsphub.org/publications...
A new policy brief by Fadhel Kaboub published by the Global South Policy Hub gsphub.org/publications... @gsphub.bsky.social
Global South Debt Crises Are Driven by Structural Debt Traps
According to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), 3.4 billion people now live in countries that spend more on interest payments...
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Check out the latest episode of the Upstream podcast on The Rise (and Fall) of the US Dollar: www.upstreampodcast.org/conversations @upstreampodcast.bsky.social
My interview last month with Juan Diego Murcia Gómez, editor of Diario La República at the Economía Para La Vida summit in Bogotá. We Discussed geopolitics, economic transformation, and South-South cooperation for a New International Economic Order: lnkd.in/dGYR4UYT
My interview last month with Juan Diego Murcia Gómez, editor of Diario La República at the Economía Para La Vida summit in Bogotá. We Discussed geopolitics, economic transformation, and South-South cooperation for a New International Economic Order: lnkd.in/dGYR4UYT
Here is the recording of our "Beyond Extraction: Strategic Partnerships for Secure and Sustainable Supply Chains for the Energy Transition" session co-hosted by IRENA & the European Commission Joint Research Center at the 20th #EUSEW2026 in Brussels (June 9-11) www.youtube.com/live/9BWUvyj...
Here is the recording of our "Beyond Extraction: Strategic Partnerships for Secure and Sustainable Supply Chains for the Energy Transition" session co-hosted by IRENA & the European Commission Joint Research Center at the 20th #EUSEW2026 in Brussels (June 9-11) www.youtube.com/live/9BWUvyj...
Check out the latest episode of the Upstream podcast on The Rise (and Fall) of the US Dollar: www.upstreampodcast.org/conversations @upstreampodcast.bsky.social
NEW EP we're joined by @fadhelkaboub.bsky.social for a conversation about US dollar hegemony, the path that brought us here, the path that could lead us out, BRICS, china, iran, and much more
upstream@upstreampodcast.bsky.social · 4mo agoNEXT WEEK: the rise (and fall) of the US dollar w/ @fadhelkaboub.bsky.social
"Africa does not need to become a replica of the West. Africa has the opportunity, and perhaps the responsibility, to help design a different civilizational model altogether; one rooted in solidarity rather than extraction...." globalsouthperspectives.substack.com/p/africa-day...
witnessradio.org/experts-warn... In an interview with Witness Radio, Tunisian economist and President of the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity, Fadhel Kaboub, said Africa’s role in the global transition should go beyond merely supplying raw materials to industrialized countries.
Check out this interview I recorded with Vianney Sydney Kizito at Witness Radio of Uganda about Africa's Just Energy Transition. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO0F...
sundayindependent.co.za/dispatch/202... PROFESSOR Fadhel Kaboub, renowned Tunisian-American political economist, recently gave a blunt appraisal of the stranglehold that the lingering traits of neo-colonialism continue to hold on the African continent.
sundayindependent.co.za/dispatch/202... PROFESSOR Fadhel Kaboub, renowned Tunisian-American political economist, recently gave a blunt appraisal of the stranglehold that the lingering traits of neo-colonialism continue to hold on the African continent.
Check out this interview I recorded with Vianney Sydney Kizito at Witness Radio of Uganda about Africa's Just Energy Transition. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO0F...
witnessradio.org/experts-warn... In an interview with Witness Radio, Tunisian economist and President of the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity, Fadhel Kaboub, said Africa’s role in the global transition should go beyond merely supplying raw materials to industrialized countries.
It was a pleasure speaking with Arafet Ben Marzou on Ecologia podcast. We discussed the unfinished business of structural economic decolonization, Pan Africanism, Global South joint industrial strategies, and what I call the Geopolitical Bargain of the Century. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBjE...
"Africa does not need to become a replica of the West. Africa has the opportunity, and perhaps the responsibility, to help design a different civilizational model altogether; one rooted in solidarity rather than extraction...." globalsouthperspectives.substack.com/p/africa-day...
Here is a second Financial Times letter from one of my Monetary Theory students at Denison University, Abzal Iskakov (class of 2026): www.ft.com/content/ac4a... Letter: ECB’s stance on price stability requires action on rates now From Abzal Iskakov, Astana, Kazakhstan
