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Fadhel Kaboub is an Associate Professor of economics at Denison University (on leave) and
President of the Global
Institute for Sustainable Prosperity.
He currently serves
as the Under-Secretary-General for Financing for Development at the
Organisation of Educational
Cooperation in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
He also held a
number of research affiliations with the Levy Economics Institute,
the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, the
Economic Research Forum (Cairo),
Power Shift Africa
(Nairobi), and the Center for Strategic Studies on the Maghreb
(Tunis).
As a teacher, scholar, and policy advisor during
the last 20 years, Dr. Kaboub’s work has focused on designing public
policies to enhance monetary and economic sovereignty in the Global
South, build resilience, and promote equitable and sustainable
prosperity. Dr. Kaboub is an expert on Modern Monetary Theory (MMT),
the Green New Deal, the Job Guarantee, and Reparations.
"We can't democratize, nor can we decarbonize, a system that hasn't been decolonized yet."
"Africa’s industrial strategy cannot prioritize the needs of the Global North by continuing to serve as the source of cheap raw materials and low cost assembly line workers."
"The reality of an economically sovereign, resilient, prosperous, just, and equitable African continent is within reach, and it begins by educating, organizing, and mobilising millions of Africans to decolonise their economies, their educational systems, and every aspect of post-colonial institutions."
"In order to accelerate the transition to a real-life Wakanda, there is a case to be made for a substantial transfer of financial and technological sources from the Global North to the Global South. This is not a plea for help or charity. This is a call for climate, colonial, and neocolonial Reparations."
"If Africa doesn't have a coherent long-term strategic vision for itself, it will continue to be part of the Global North's strategic vision."
"If the sources of inflation in the Global South are food and energy imports, then how can their central banks successfully target inflation by raising interest rates, when in fact energy prices are controlled by OPEC, and food prices are controlled by ADM, Bunge, Cargill, Glencore, and Louis Dreyfus? The best way to tame inflation is to invest in food sovereignty and renewable energy sovereignty. Central Banks cannot target inflation; that’s the responsibility of the agriculture ministries and renewable energy commissions."
"No more hunger and bread riots, we’ll have food sovereignty.
No more darkness nor smog, we’ll have clean energy sovereignty.
We’ll use the sun, the wind, the tides, and even some volcanic energy.
We’ll end the pain, we’ll end the suffering, we’ll build a truly circular economy.
We’ll change the metric to guide every public policy.
We’ll use GPI, laser-focused on quality of life, not some useless GDP."
"I’m taking this global Climate Action plan very seriously,
because I don’t want to end up a Climate Refugee.
Humanity is longing for genuine global solidarity.
So join me in this struggle, it’s my final plea.
I’ll die trying if I have to, for this better future is within reach, and it’s yearning to be set free."
Post-colonial Africa suffers from three structural deficiencies: the lack of food sovereignty, energy sovereignty and high value-added manufacturing
The Global North, however, does not face any of the above-mentioned constraints, and has the technological, logistical, and financial capabilities
Continue readingAfrica was not colonised because it was poor, but rather precisely because it was and continues to be a very rich continent
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