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This report provides a basic quantitative assessment of the recent introduction of a National Minimum Wage (NMW) in South Africa, with a specific focus on the short-term labour market impacts. We use labour force survey data to examine and measure t…
Haroon Bhorat
Adaiah
Benjamin Stanwix
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South African cities are increasingly turning to technology-aided surveillance to police public spaces. Conceived of as ‘safe city’ projects, they are linking cameras to form wide area networks that increasingly use artificial intelligence (AI) to i…
Michael Kwet
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This study investigated the effects of tetanus immunization on birth weight in rural Cameroon. Specifically, the study sought to: examine the determinants of mother’s immunization in Cameroon; assess the impact of mother tetanus immunization on chil…
Mbu Daniel Tambi
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The purpose of the paper is to evaluate empirical performances of Divisia relative to traditional monetary aggregates in terms of growth and inflation within the period 1992.1- 2009. in BEAC and BCEAO . The methodology of the paper is focused on var…
Itchoko Motande Mondjeli Mwa Ndjokou
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Access to arable land is a crucial avenue for reducing poverty and hunger in poor countries. Over the past four decades, Zimbabwe redistributed vast quantities of arable land to the landless, women and poor communal farmers to reduce inequality. For…
Carren Pnidiriri
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The outbreak of COVID-19 in China in late 2019 has had significant health and socio-economic consequences in Senegal and around the world. To contain the shock of the health crisis, the State of Senegal has adopted a resilience plan. This plan inclu…
Abdoulaye Diagne
François Joseph Cabral
Mamadou Abdoulaye Diallo
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Togo confirmed its first case of COVID-19 on March 6, 2020 and has since recorded 6,933 cases with 85 deaths. To control the spread of the coronavirus on its soil, the Togolese government has taken a battery of security, health, social and economic …
Hervé Akinocho
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The day after Mauritius recorded its first three cases of coronavirus in March 2020, the government closed the country’s borders and announced a nationwide lockdown. Schools were closed, public transport services were limited, private vehicles were …
L. Amédée Darga
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The effectiveness of social media to reach a wide audience has made it a critical medium for many governments across Africa and beyond to provide reliable COVID-19 pandemic mitigation information to millions of people. In some African countries, th…
Shamira Ahmed
Tapiwa Chinembiri
Naila Govan-Vassen
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The Lake Chad Basin Region (LCBR), which basically consists of fringe territories in Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon, is notoriously fragile and highly unstable. The region is largely characterised by violent extremism and cross-border crimes. Wit…
Saheed Babajide Owonikoko
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The link between food insecurity and peace and security has become one of the centres of academic policy and political discourses. Particularly, in the Horn of Africa, there is a close link between exposure of countries to external or internal confl…
Workneh Abebe
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Experts are increasingly unanimous in affirming that information and communication technologies (ICTs) are becoming increasingly important in the societies of the 21st century. The digital transformation induced by ICT has thus contributed to econ…
Christian Pout
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Within the framework of Turkey's policy of opening up to Africa, which began in 1998, Turkey is determined to increase and develop its political, economic, commercial and cultural relations with African countries. In this context, a strategy for the…
Ezgi Yazıcıoğlu
Roméo Saa Ngouana
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At a time when the world is experiencing a large-scale health crisis, psychosis is spreading through an increasingly worried population. The virus that caused the COVID-19 disease, appeared in China in November 2019, in the city of Wuhan. It now aff…
Bachir Jesse Dieye
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This Report is the outcome of research undertaken to understand the drivers and the implications of two forms of electoral corruption, vote-buying and the abuse of the power of incumbency, in Nigeria, and to offer recommendations to diminish their s…
Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD)
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On 10 October 2020 voters in Ondo State went to the polls to elect a governor in its off-cycle governorship election. Like the off-cycle governorship election in Edo State on 19 September, the Ondo State election was remarkable for (a) its widely-ac…
Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD)
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Since March 2020, the Beninese government has taken measures to avoid the spreading of the coronavirus. These measures, which are preventive in nature, consist of quarantining travelers or people who have been exposed to the risk of contamination, a…
Romaric Samson
Calixte Houedey
Lucrèce Ahandagbe
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Kenya’s economy has been one of the fastest-growing in Africa. Economic growth averaged 5.7% in 2019, third-highest in sub-Saharan Africa, boosted by a stable macroeconomic environment, positive investor confidence, and a resilient services sector. …
Paul Kamau
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Developing countries lose $1.26 trillion a year to corruption, theft, and tax evasion, according to analysts’ estimates – a sum large enough to lift 1.4 billion people above the poverty line for six years. Unless we control corruption, development …
Christiaan Keulder
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This study examined time-scale connectedness between returns on African stock markets and commodities across the energy, agriculture, metals, and beverage markets with wavelet-based coherency, wavelet multiple cross-correlation analysis, and wavelet…
Gideon Boako
Imhotep P. Alagidede
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