Fadhel Kaboub
@fadhelkaboub.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Economics at Denison University, President of the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity, Author of Global South Perspectives on Substack
https://globalsouthperspectives.substack.com
https://globalsouthperspectives.substack.com
Dr Fadhel Kaboub argues that Africa can no longer afford to trade raw minerals for finished products: “Governments must invest in processing infrastructure. Refining, precursor production, and battery assembly should happen near the mines -not overseas”
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How Africa plans to keep its green wealth at home
The device you are holding, built from African minerals, represents more than technology. It symbolises a choice: whether Africa rises up the value chain or remains stuck at the bottom.
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November 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Dr Fadhel Kaboub argues that Africa can no longer afford to trade raw minerals for finished products: “Governments must invest in processing infrastructure. Refining, precursor production, and battery assembly should happen near the mines -not overseas”
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Fadhel Kaboub, president of the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity, argued that "Africa cannot transition by importing clean technology while exporting its minerals in an unprocessed state; that would merely repeat colonial dependency under a green label." nation.africa/kenya/climat...
Africa's vast solar potential held by a $23 Billion annual funding gap
The continent has the sun. The world has the money. A $23 Billion annual funding gap is all that stands in the way
nation.africa
November 23, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Fadhel Kaboub, president of the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity, argued that "Africa cannot transition by importing clean technology while exporting its minerals in an unprocessed state; that would merely repeat colonial dependency under a green label." nation.africa/kenya/climat...
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November 21, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Join us if you are in Mexico City this week at UNAM - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
November 18, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Join us if you are in Mexico City this week at UNAM - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Join us if you are in Mexico City this week at UNAM - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
November 18, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Join us if you are in Mexico City this week at UNAM - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Join me tomorrow Monday Nov. 17 in Johannesburg (in-person and online) for a High-Level Dialogue: “Rethinking Debt Sustainability and Exploring Alternative Financing Models Better Suited to Africa’s Context”
Event info: bit.ly/47AyuCi
Online RSVP: shorturl.at/0eOj2
In-person RSVP: shorturl.at/KKXgn
Event info: bit.ly/47AyuCi
Online RSVP: shorturl.at/0eOj2
In-person RSVP: shorturl.at/KKXgn
November 16, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Join me tomorrow Monday Nov. 17 in Johannesburg (in-person and online) for a High-Level Dialogue: “Rethinking Debt Sustainability and Exploring Alternative Financing Models Better Suited to Africa’s Context”
Event info: bit.ly/47AyuCi
Online RSVP: shorturl.at/0eOj2
In-person RSVP: shorturl.at/KKXgn
Event info: bit.ly/47AyuCi
Online RSVP: shorturl.at/0eOj2
In-person RSVP: shorturl.at/KKXgn
Excuse me, do you know what time it is?
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November 16, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Excuse me, do you know what time it is?
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The economist Fadhel Kaboub, who advises developing nations on climate, argues this is not “because of political will, but because the economics of renewables is winning”. Africa, he says, can generate about 1,000 times the electricity it will need in 2040 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Guardian view on Cop30: someone has to pay for the end of the oil and gas age | Editorial
Editorial: The fossil-fuel era is drawing to a close, but at a pace far too slow for the planet’s good or a fair transition to a clean energy future
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November 14, 2025 at 9:32 PM
The economist Fadhel Kaboub, who advises developing nations on climate, argues this is not “because of political will, but because the economics of renewables is winning”. Africa, he says, can generate about 1,000 times the electricity it will need in 2040 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My latest blog on substack.
"The fossil-fuel era is ending, not because of political will, but because the economics of renewables is winning."
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"The fossil-fuel era is ending, not because of political will, but because the economics of renewables is winning."
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Can COP30 be the COP of Truth?
The fossil fuel era is ending but the world is still waiting for transformative climate finance for a Just Transition
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November 14, 2025 at 4:01 PM
My latest blog on substack.
"The fossil-fuel era is ending, not because of political will, but because the economics of renewables is winning."
globalsouthperspectives.substack.com/p/can-cop30-...
"The fossil-fuel era is ending, not because of political will, but because the economics of renewables is winning."
globalsouthperspectives.substack.com/p/can-cop30-...
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Wow he genuinely posted this accusing the Harvard crimson of "moral bankruptcy" 3 days ago. People like to talk about the Dunning Kruger effect but i'm far more interested in the moral version of that!
November 14, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Wow he genuinely posted this accusing the Harvard crimson of "moral bankruptcy" 3 days ago. People like to talk about the Dunning Kruger effect but i'm far more interested in the moral version of that!
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"It's not about words anymore, it's about action."
Watch Amiera Sawas, Head of Research and Policy, discuss the goals for COP30 during the Climate Action Network's opening press conference ⬇️
#cop30 #fossilfueltreaty
Watch Amiera Sawas, Head of Research and Policy, discuss the goals for COP30 during the Climate Action Network's opening press conference ⬇️
#cop30 #fossilfueltreaty
November 10, 2025 at 9:21 PM
"It's not about words anymore, it's about action."
Watch Amiera Sawas, Head of Research and Policy, discuss the goals for COP30 during the Climate Action Network's opening press conference ⬇️
#cop30 #fossilfueltreaty
Watch Amiera Sawas, Head of Research and Policy, discuss the goals for COP30 during the Climate Action Network's opening press conference ⬇️
#cop30 #fossilfueltreaty
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Fadhel Kaboub exposes the tranquilizing drugs that reproduce the colonial traps in less than two minutes at the ChangeNow Summit in Paris (April 2025). Take a listen: youtu.be/0N6GZL87cn4
Fadhel Kaboub exposes the tranquilizing drugs that reproduce colonial traps in less than 2 minutes
YouTube video by Fadhel Kaboub
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November 9, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Fadhel Kaboub exposes the tranquilizing drugs that reproduce the colonial traps in less than two minutes at the ChangeNow Summit in Paris (April 2025). Take a listen: youtu.be/0N6GZL87cn4
Fadhel Kaboub exposes the tranquilizing drugs that reproduce the colonial traps in less than two minutes at the ChangeNow Summit in Paris (April 2025). Take a listen: youtu.be/0N6GZL87cn4
Fadhel Kaboub exposes the tranquilizing drugs that reproduce colonial traps in less than 2 minutes
YouTube video by Fadhel Kaboub
youtu.be
November 9, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Fadhel Kaboub exposes the tranquilizing drugs that reproduce the colonial traps in less than two minutes at the ChangeNow Summit in Paris (April 2025). Take a listen: youtu.be/0N6GZL87cn4
Reposted by Fadhel Kaboub
I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.
November 5, 2025 at 12:13 PM
I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.
Fadhel Kaboub presents "Decolonizing Africa's Economic Structures: The pre-requisites for Justice, Democracy & Sustainable Prosperity," a keynote speech at the Joaquim Chissano University in Maputo, Mozambique (October 30, 2025).
youtu.be/TeVGixZQ-hQ
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Decolonizing Africa's Economic Structures: The prereqs for Justice, Democracy&Sustainable Prosperity
YouTube video by Fadhel Kaboub
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November 4, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Fadhel Kaboub presents "Decolonizing Africa's Economic Structures: The pre-requisites for Justice, Democracy & Sustainable Prosperity," a keynote speech at the Joaquim Chissano University in Maputo, Mozambique (October 30, 2025).
youtu.be/TeVGixZQ-hQ
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🔥🌎Breaking news from Belém
💸Just one week before #COP30, at the Global Citizen Festival: Amazônia, the first ever fund pairing government fossil fuel phase-out commitments with private investments was launched — the Journey Fund, developed in partnership with the #FossilFuelTreaty Initiative!
💸Just one week before #COP30, at the Global Citizen Festival: Amazônia, the first ever fund pairing government fossil fuel phase-out commitments with private investments was launched — the Journey Fund, developed in partnership with the #FossilFuelTreaty Initiative!
November 2, 2025 at 4:04 AM
🔥🌎Breaking news from Belém
💸Just one week before #COP30, at the Global Citizen Festival: Amazônia, the first ever fund pairing government fossil fuel phase-out commitments with private investments was launched — the Journey Fund, developed in partnership with the #FossilFuelTreaty Initiative!
💸Just one week before #COP30, at the Global Citizen Festival: Amazônia, the first ever fund pairing government fossil fuel phase-out commitments with private investments was launched — the Journey Fund, developed in partnership with the #FossilFuelTreaty Initiative!
Kaboub stressed the need to transform the global economic and geopolitical hierarchy to move away from colonial structures designed for extractive purposes towards a multi-polar world with the Global South at the center of the international economic order.
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October 31, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Kaboub stressed the need to transform the global economic and geopolitical hierarchy to move away from colonial structures designed for extractive purposes towards a multi-polar world with the Global South at the center of the international economic order.
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the insanity that is replicating the mistakes from the past, this is not late capitalism, but brazen capitalism in the face of millions not making enough money for food, yet the market bet on technologies that will mostly permanently damage the social fabric and bring unemployment.
SNAFU indeed.
SNAFU indeed.
October 31, 2025 at 1:46 AM
the insanity that is replicating the mistakes from the past, this is not late capitalism, but brazen capitalism in the face of millions not making enough money for food, yet the market bet on technologies that will mostly permanently damage the social fabric and bring unemployment.
SNAFU indeed.
SNAFU indeed.
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Happy to share my latest piece "Decolonise to Decarbonise" published by the Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS) Malaysia.
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October 30, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Happy to share my latest piece "Decolonise to Decarbonise" published by the Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS) Malaysia.
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The original English version is available here: iej.org.za/sovereign-de...
A Coherent Framework for Sovereign Debt and Economic Transformation: Towards a Global South Debtors’ Club
This working paper calls for a Global South Debtors’ Coalition to drive structural transformation through coordinated action on debt, food, energy, and industry.
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October 29, 2025 at 2:19 PM
The original English version is available here: iej.org.za/sovereign-de...
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Me complace compartir la versión en español del artículo que coescribí con mi colega Andrés Chiriboga, publicado por el Observatorio de la Dolarización. “Una estrategia común sobre deuda y la transformación económica. Hacia una coalición global de deudores del Sur” dolarizacion.org/2025/10/21/u...
October 29, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Me complace compartir la versión en español del artículo que coescribí con mi colega Andrés Chiriboga, publicado por el Observatorio de la Dolarización. “Una estrategia común sobre deuda y la transformación económica. Hacia una coalición global de deudores del Sur” dolarizacion.org/2025/10/21/u...
Happy to share my latest piece "Decolonise to Decarbonise" published by the Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS) Malaysia.
www.isis.org.my/wp-content/u...
www.isis.org.my/wp-content/u...
October 30, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Happy to share my latest piece "Decolonise to Decarbonise" published by the Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS) Malaysia.
www.isis.org.my/wp-content/u...
www.isis.org.my/wp-content/u...
Me complace compartir la versión en español del artículo que coescribí con mi colega Andrés Chiriboga, publicado por el Observatorio de la Dolarización. “Una estrategia común sobre deuda y la transformación económica. Hacia una coalición global de deudores del Sur” dolarizacion.org/2025/10/21/u...
October 29, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Me complace compartir la versión en español del artículo que coescribí con mi colega Andrés Chiriboga, publicado por el Observatorio de la Dolarización. “Una estrategia común sobre deuda y la transformación económica. Hacia una coalición global de deudores del Sur” dolarizacion.org/2025/10/21/u...
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Fadhel Kaboub presents "The Role of Parliamentarians in Decolonizing Economic Structures: A Pan-African Development Vision for a New International Economic Order," a presentation to members of the Namibian Parliament (September 26, 2025). youtu.be/VqVToPvZLnQ
The Role of Parliamentarians in Decolonizing Economic Structures ~ Fadhel Kaboub
YouTube video by Fadhel Kaboub
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October 14, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Fadhel Kaboub presents "The Role of Parliamentarians in Decolonizing Economic Structures: A Pan-African Development Vision for a New International Economic Order," a presentation to members of the Namibian Parliament (September 26, 2025). youtu.be/VqVToPvZLnQ