I also wonder if EA or something similar was mostly made up of say people from various countries in Africa with more ties & influence over local settings then would we see different and/​or more ambitious interventions or even political pushes from the community? Like for example would we see interventions to create more trade between specific neighboring countries or the funding of political campaigns?
Like if I were the economics nerd I am in a country in Africa I’d be pushing politically to create a stronger African Union that could create larger common markets of consumer demand & use the consolidated demand to bargain for things that would increase technology transfers & then push for forced-export lead industrial policy like what several Asian countries did (https://​​byrnehobart.medium.com/​​lessons-from-the-east-asian-economic-miracle-5f8d0f2354d9), essentially trying to replicate China’s rise but for a lot of Africa.
I also wonder if EA or something similar was mostly made up of say people from various countries in Africa with more ties & influence over local settings then would we see different and/​or more ambitious interventions or even political pushes from the community? Like for example would we see interventions to create more trade between specific neighboring countries or the funding of political campaigns?
Like if I were the economics nerd I am in a country in Africa I’d be pushing politically to create a stronger African Union that could create larger common markets of consumer demand & use the consolidated demand to bargain for things that would increase technology transfers & then push for forced-export lead industrial policy like what several Asian countries did (https://​​byrnehobart.medium.com/​​lessons-from-the-east-asian-economic-miracle-5f8d0f2354d9), essentially trying to replicate China’s rise but for a lot of Africa.