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Institutions

How organizations work—schools, hospitals, police, courts, companies—and why they succeed or fail.

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Ajo, Gogina, and the Tales of Collective Esusu

In many narratives about African economies, the focus remains on absence—lack of infrastructure, lack of capital, lack of formal systems. But systems like Esusu and Gogina challenge that narrative, not by denying these limitations, but by working around them.