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Fadhel Kaboub

Fadhel Kaboub is President of the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity and Associate Professor of economics at Denison University.  He is the author of  Global South Perspectives on substack. He is also a member of the Independent Expert Group on Just Transition and Development, an expert group member with the Global Solidarity Levies Task Force, a member of the Earth4All 21st Century Transformational Economics Commission, a Steering Committee member with the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative, a member of the African Forum on Climate Change, Energy and Development, and a member of the Independent Expert Group on Just Transition Finance. He has recently served as Under-Secretary-General for Financing for Development at the Organisation of Southern Cooperation in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Dr. Kaboub is an expert on designing public policies to enhance monetary and economic sovereignty in the Global South, build resilience, and promote equitable and sustainable prosperity. His recent work focuses on Just Transition, Climate Finance, and transforming the global trade, finance, and investment architecture. His most recent co-authored publication is Just Transition: A Climate, Energy, and Development Vision for Africa (May 2023). He has held a number of research affiliations with the Levy Economics Institute (NY), the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University (MA), the Economic Research Forum (Cairo), Power Shift Africa (Nairobi), Africa’s Forum on Climate Change, Energy and Development (Abuja), and the Center for Strategic Studies on the Maghreb (Tunis). Dr. Kaboub earned his bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Tunis – El Manar, and his Master’s and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Before settling at Denison University in 2008, he taught at Simon’s Rock College of Bard (Massachusetts) and at Drew University (New Jersey) where he also directed the Wall Street Semester Program.

 

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Fadhel Kaboub

President, Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity and Associate Professor of Economics, Denison University

Publications

The Cost of Unemployment and the Job Guarantee Alternative in Saudi Arabia

Executive Summary Youth unemployment, especially for women and university graduates, is one of Saudi Arabia’s most important challenges. The purpose of this study is threefold. First, we estimate the economic cost of unemployment in Saudi Arabia. Using a very conservative empirical methodology, we find that the cost of unemployment (for 2 million unemployed), in terms […]
Media Appearances

What Are The Economics of Climate Change?

GISP scholar Fadhel Kaboub joins Nick Hanauer and the Civic Ventures team on the Pitchfork Economics Podcast to talk about MMT, the Green New Deal, and funding the fight against climate change. Listen
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