Namibia’s policy debate often assumes “transformation” is a matter of effort. The binding constraint is scale: sparse demography, high fixed costs, and regional integration that hasn’t delivered a true market.
Namibia’s policy debate often assumes “transformation” is a matter of effort. The binding constraint is scale: sparse demography, high fixed costs, and regional integration that hasn’t delivered a true market.
Namibia has earned credibility through fiscal discipline, a hard exchange-rate anchor, and regulatory caution. Yet the same posture now risks suppressing strategic experimentation—precisely as climate stress, energy dependence, and commodity substitution intensify. The next decade will reward states that can govern uncertainty, not merely avoid it.
Brazilian external relations minister Aloysio Nunes says there is a…