Raw Power: How the Global South Can Leverage the Critical Minerals Race

Raw Power: How the Global South Can Leverage the Critical Minerals Race

Authors: Cullen Hendrix and Morgan Bazilian* The confluence of two accelerating trends augurs poorly for critical mineral-rich economies in the Global South: the rise of economic nationalism in advanced economies and the return of territorial conquest as a normalized—if not yet fully legitimized—tool of statecraft. The United States and the European Union are aggressively pursuing […] The post Raw Power: How the Global South Can Leverage the Cri…

OP-ED | The Scramble for Africa's Critical Minerals, By Rabah Arezki & Rick van der Ploeg - African Newspage | Reporting Africa’s Development

Vast natural-resource endowments have proven to be more of a curse than a blessing, with resource-rich African countries often developing more slowly than their resource-poor developed counterparts. The world’s superpowers have developed a seemingly insatiable appetite for the critical minerals that are essential to the ongoing energy and digital transitions, including rare-earth metals (for semiconductors), cobalt (for batteries), and uranium (…