Tariffs Create Markets — Just Not the Ones Policymakers Want
Panic wouldn’t help. Anger would make things worse. So, I stared out at the endless fields of northern Nigeria and thought, “I’m a pawn in their chess game. They were never rooks in mine.” In 2014, I served as an embedded advisor to Nigeria’s minister of agriculture and rural affairs, tasked with building agricultural markets to support stabilization. I flew north with a plan to win over the former minister of agriculture — a powerful businessman who I thought was my rook in the game of market reform. But after landing in the northern city of Kano, my host met The post Tariffs Create Markets — Just Not the Ones Policymakers Want appeared first on War on the Rocks.
Panic wouldn’t help. Anger would make things worse. So, I stared out at the endless fields of northern Nigeria and thought, “I’m a pawn in their chess game. They were never rooks in mine.” In 2014, I served as an embedded advisor to Nigeria’s minister of agriculture and rural affairs, tasked with building agricultural markets to support stabilization. I flew north with a plan to win over the former minister of agriculture — a powerful businessman who I thought was my rook in the game of market reform. But after landing in the northern city of Kano, my host met
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