{
  "id": 16461708,
  "title": "Why aren’t African economists winning Nobel Prizes?, By ‘Tope Fasua",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/25/why-arent-african-economists-winning-nobel-prizes-by-tope-fasua",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-25T10:00:19.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Premium Times",
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    "url": "https://www.premiumtimesng.com/opinion/920017-why-arent-african-economists-winning-nobel-prizes-by-tope-fasua.html"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "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…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}