Ifeanyi Uddin

Think Nigerian Democracy is Expensive? Try Autocracy

Think Nigerian Democracy is Expensive? Try Autocracy

Objective observers  would most likely judge the Buhari administration as a failure on account of the impact it has had… Read More

3 years ago

The world’s poor in a warmer world

Any which way, therefore, the world’s poor lose in most conversations about global warming ― at least long before the… Read More

3 years ago

What are we?

It is easy, therefore, to assume that our policymakers do not know what they are about. If you add to… Read More

3 years ago

Of cosmetic political party manifestoes

The eight years of the Buhari administration have served up a useful lesson in elementary economics. As a people, we… Read More

3 years ago

Food insecurity and our public policy responses

Do we face a serious food insecurity problem? Both the International Monetary Fund and the World Food Programme think so.… Read More

3 years ago

What are our presidential candidates’ thoughts on the economy?

Although most commentators imagine we would end up across the table from the IMF agreeing balance of payments bridging facilities… Read More

3 years ago

Abacha’s ruthlessness and the hospitality of his erstwhile victims

It is a rare instance that one substitutes ruthlessness for hospitality to anyone’s advantage. Nonetheless, Shettima’s main failing might simply… Read More

3 years ago

Designing policy in straitened economic times

Back home, confronted by the same facts, our governments would have banned everything that moves. Cap prices. Tax windfall profits.… Read More

3 years ago

Gorbachev and the imperative of universal human values

His aim was not to turn the Soviet Union into a new America. But as it is clear, today, from… Read More

3 years ago

Positive Q2 GDP numbers versus the sense of a failing economy

The numbers on the economy’s performance in the second quarter of this year are not just positive. For this reason,… Read More

3 years ago

Could think-tanks make a difference to our policy debates?

Is there space, then, for independent, informed and credible sources of commentary on national affairs? The result of research by… Read More

3 years ago

China, Taiwan and the right to self-determination

In all these years, the question of what rights the Taiwanese people have, has remained on the geopolitical front burner.… Read More

3 years ago