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Gender justice sees equal power relations, privilege, dignity, and freedom for people of different genders as a necessary component for any “just” society and a prerequisite for development. Gender justice includes gender equality, meaning subst...
Maxine Rubin
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Extremely high levels of unemployment contribute to poverty and inequality, and are one of South Africa’s most intractable problems. Can the agricultural sector help to address the problem? And how can land reform be undertaken in a manner that cr...
Ben Cousins
Amelia Genis
Jeanette Clarke
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Seismic surveys, which are conducted during oil and gas exploration, produce low-frequency high-intensity noise. These surveys have been shown to negatively impact marine fauna around the world to varying degrees. Operation Phakisa is a South Afri...
Jean Purdon
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Since the announcement by President Muhammad Buhari of his candidacy for the election in February 2019, Nigeria experienced premature electoral campaign fever. On the majority side, the time is running out to ensure a second term for the incumbe...
Abdelhak Bassou
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There are three ways to conceptualize power in society: the power of the government (the Prince), the power of the market (the Merchant), and the power of the people (the Citizen). Development history shows that the world has attempted to focus o...
African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF)
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The future of representative democracy is uncertain. The gradual consolidation of its institutions, procedures, cultural and ideological references, was directly congruent with the evolution of the industrial age economic and social compound. But ...
Alfredo Da Gama e Abreu Valladão
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At the inception of the New Millennium, all the UN member countries made a commitment to mankind to eradicate deprivation in its different dimensions. The vision for such a future was expressed in concrete terms of what are called the Millennium D...
Somali Institute for Development Research and Analysis (SIDRA)
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Africa and developing countries have incessantly been depicted as dependent on developed countries for aid and assistance. However, illicit financial flows (IFFs) portray a different scenario whereby massive amounts of financial outflows illegally...
Yasmin Khodary
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Using experimental data from a pilot project administered in rural Tonj South, Aweil West, and Aweil North, this paper studies climate services reception and application in South Sudan. The pilot climate service was first of its kind directly de...
Nhial Tiitmamer
Augustino T. Mayai
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The Orange-Senqu Basin, spanning Namibia, Botswana, South Africa and Lesotho, is one of the most water-stressed regions in Southern Africa. Precipitation varies considerably from year to year, mostly falling during highly localised, intense storms...
SouthSouthNorth (SSN)
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In 2013 China launched a global connectivity project known as the Belt and Road Initiative. Under its flagship agenda, China seeks to mitigate slowing growth at home while supporting growth abroad, especially in other developing countries. Global ...
Lauren A. Johnston
Robert J. Earley
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In 1913, South Africa’s Land Act set aside 87% of the country’s land for exclusive use and ownership by white people, helping to divide the nation into a relatively prosperous white heartland and a cluster of increasingly impoverished black rese...
Sibusiso Nkomo
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This report discusses several issues regarding peacebuiding in Africa under the following headings: 1) The Focus on 32nd AU summit: elections could see big powers return to the PSC. In February 2019 the 15-member Peace and Security Council (PSC)...
Liesl Louw-Vaudran
Andrews Atta-Asamoah
Mohamed Diatta
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This edition of Foresight Africa illuminates the priorities of the continent in the coming year, with recommendations for tackling the challenges that lie ahead. In Chapter 1, authors examine how good governance, elections, and institutions of dem...
Brahima S. Coulibaly
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We examine the impact of rainfall variability and cyclones on schooling and work among a cohort of teens and young adults in Madagascar. We estimate a bivariate probit model using a panel survey conducted in 2004 and 2011 in this poor island natio...
Francesca Marchetta
David E. Sahn
Luca Tiberti
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This paper assesses the effectiveness and progressivity of Uganda’s Universal Primary Education program since it was first introduced in 1997, by examining factors driving primary school attendance, grade delay and drop out trends for children bet...
Jean-Yves Duclos
Angela Kiconco
Sebastian Levine
Joseph Enyimu
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Over the past decades, Uganda has experienced impressive economic growth rates, far above the average among Sub‐Saharan African countries. Indeed, on average, GDP grew by more than 6% annually since the 1990s, increasing per capita income by 4% ye...
Véronique Robichaud
Luca Tiberti
Hélène Maisonnave
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Governments across Africa have faced increasing challenges to maintain fuel subsidies over recent years. In Ghana, in the face of a near 12% fiscal deficit in 2012, their burgeoning cost has drawn attention to questions of fiscal sustainability as...
Edgar F. A. Cooke
Sarah Hague
John Cockburn
Abdel-Rahmen El Lahga
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Poverty is different for children than for adults. This becomes very clear when we listen to children themselves talking about their experiences of poverty. The importance of effectively measuring child poverty is underlined by the fact that its ...
Yele Maweki Batana
John Cockburn
Ibrahim Kasirye
Jane Kabubo-Mariara
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This research investigates whether women entrepreneurs in small and medium-sized enterprise (SMEs) in Nigeria are marginalised in formal credit markets compared to their male counterparts. The study also investigates the impact of credit access ...
Emmanuel Nwosu
Anthony Orji
Vivian Nnetu
Chioma Nwangwu
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Using the third Chadian survey on consumption and the informal sector (ECOSIT III), this study aims to assess the relationship between education language choice and entrepreneurship in Chad. By education language choice, we mean the choice betwe...
Mallaye Douzounet
Koulké Blandine Nan-Guer
Urbain Thierry Yogo
Benjamin Fomba Komga
Eurydice Tormal Gosngar
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Coastal livelihood interventions can help communities by providing additional incomes, while protecting and maintaining resources and the environment. The identification and promotion of resilient and diversified livelihood opportunities are cruci...
Romy Chevallier
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