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Markets outgrowing states show the scale dilemma of African integration

Africa’s economic challenge is not a lack of entrepreneurial energy or ambition. It is a structural mismatch between the scale at which its markets operate and the scale at which political authority is exercised, writes Danilo Desiderio. Read on the London School of Economics and Political Science blog.

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