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Carlos Lopes

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Carlos Lopes is a former UN Under-Secretary-General and former Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Africa. He is a Professor at the University of Cape Town's Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance.

Carlos Lopes

Aug 24 2026

Development economics for an age of upheaval

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Sustainable Business · ESG

As the boundaries that once separated sectors blur, prosperity increasingly depends not on which sector an economy specialises in, but on the ecosystems that let productive capacity keep expanding

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