Why aren’t African economists winning Nobel Prizes?, By ‘Tope Fasua

Premium Times25 October 2026, 10:00 UTCNigeria

There are many observations around the subject of economics that African economists are better suited to understand. We could write about informality, for instance, for we have the world’s largest informal economies, products of past dislocations and distrust of imported systems of government. We could write and research around the impact of history on economies, […] The post Why aren’t African economists winning Nobel Prizes?, By ‘Tope Fasua appeared first on Premium Times Nigeria.

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