President Arthur Peter Mutharika used his 2026 State of the Nation Address not merely to report on government performance, but to outline a coherent and ambitious political economy for Malawi, one ...
My thesis in this piece is that Nigeria urgently needs a developmental state and a renegotiated terms of engagement with development partners (especially with such multilateral institutions like the ...
Strangely enough, the literature on “state capacity” – including that on industrial policy and on the entrepreneurial state – says very little about the people who staff the higher ranks of the state.