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A previous government once famously described Nigeria’s young, unemployed population as “jobless youth.” Another, before that, framed them more starkly as “Collective Children of Anger (CCA).”…

Macroeconomic stability gets the headlines. Human capital tells you how people are faring. But if you want to understand whether an economy can sustain growth, you have…

Economic reforms are often judged by the big numbers—growth rates, reserves, inflation. But those metrics only tell you whether an economy is stabilizing. They don’t tell…

There’s a way governments like to tell economic stories. They point to reserves. They highlight growth rates. They cite inflation trends. And to be fair, those…