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The recent pandemic has caused unprecedented health and socio-economic consequences. The measures taken by the Senegalese authorities to limit the spread of the virus have had negative effects on people's activities. Indeed, farmers have encountered…
Abdou Hadji Badji
Ibrahima Paul Thiao
Mamadou Salif Mballo
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This study assesses the potential economywide impacts of the COVID-19 in Ethiopia. It uses a dynamic computable general equilibrium (CGE) model calibrated to a social accounting matrix for FY 2010/11 and covers the period from FY 2010/11 to FY 2029/…
Lulit Mitik Beyene
Tadele Ferede
Getachew Diriba
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Incidence of COVID-19 pandemic that started in China in December 2019 and then spread to the entire world has adversely affected the world economy and threatened the welfare of populations. Since incidence of the first case on 13th of March 2020 in …
Degye Goshu
Mengistu Ketema
Getachew Diriba
Tadele Ferede
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Despite 2020, the ‘Super Year for Nature’, being disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, it still provides a unique opportunity for Africa to embrace a new ‘post-2020’ vision. Africa is already severely negatively impacted by ecosystem degradation – wit…
Nicholas King
Nicholas King
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One of the pillars that can bring about empowerment is building social capital and social institutions. This study sought to examine the relationship between social capital and women’s empowerment in Gikindu, Murang’a County, Kenya. Women’s empowerm…
Phyllis Mumia Machio
Patrick Chege Kariuki
Alice Ng'ang'a
Michael Murigi Njoroge
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This report presents three scenarios on the impact of COVID-19 in Africa using economic growth forecasts, mortality and efforts to ameliorate impact through social grants. Likely effects are examined on per capita income, poverty and the attainment …
Jakkie (Jacobus Kamfer) Cilliers, Dr
Marius Oosthuizen
Stellah Kwasi
Kelly Alexander
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Since the adoption of the SDGs, Kenya has made great advances in placing the country on a firm implementation path (Repuplic of Kenya, 2017) Inadequate data however continues to be a challenge in assessing progress of SDG implementation. The main ob…
Phyllis Mumia Machio
Patrick Chege Kariuki
Alice Ng'ang'a
Michael Murigi Njoroge
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The review of existing related-monitoring systems, decentralization policies and administration structures at the local level which was conducted by Muro et al (2006) aimed for the development of a comprehensive Municipal information system, that co…
Israel B. Katega
Marta J. Nhembo
Daniel F. Mpeta
Grace Benedict
Longinus Rutasitara
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The English title of this publication is: Continuation of courses by television, radio, and Internet during the COVID-19 pandemic: Assets and constraints in Togo. To avoid an exponential spread of coronavirus disease on the African continent, most …
Komi Amewunou
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South Africa’s efforts to contain the COVID-19 pandemic have been relatively rapid and comprehensive by international standards. Around passing 100 confirmed cases, a National state of Disaster was declared, and the country was placed under a comple…
Haroon Bhorat
Tim Köhler
Morné Oosthuizen
Benjamin Stanwix
Francois Steenkamp
Amy Thornton
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The escalation in the situation in Kano has come as a shock. Reports of a spike in deathscoincided with the suspension of testing in the state. A Daily Trust report on 21 April suggested that around 150 people had died in Kano in the five days previ…
Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD)
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The Nigerian government has taken steps to try and address the challenges faces across the power generation value chain. They include the introduction of a power regulatory body – the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) in 2005 - the u…
Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD)
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The coronavirus is a human tragedy that is now affecting over a million people around the globe. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11, 2020. It indicated with certainty that the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) will s…
Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD)
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“We’re all in this together” is a mantra of the COVID-19 crisis as leaders and activists argue for global and all-of-society responses to the pandemic. At the same time, public fears have highlighted social fissures through acts of intolerance and v…
Brian Howard
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The United Nations Framework Convention on climate change defines climate change as a change of climate which is attributed directly or indirectly to human activity that alters the composition of the global atmosphere and which is in addition to ot…
Andrew G Onokerhoraye
Job Imharobere Eronmhonsele
Mercy Omuero Edejeghwro
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Climate change is one of the most urgent concerns of our time with widespread implications for the earth’s ecosystems and human development across sectors. Nigeria, like many other African countries, is highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate ch…
Andrew G Onokerhoraye
Job Imharobere Eronmhonsele
Mercy Omuero Edejeghwro
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Women in rural communities have the responsibility of securing biomass used for cooking, water, agricultural activities that provides food and income for the family, caring for husband and children as well as household management. They wake up very …
Job Imharobere Eronmhonsele
Mercy Omuero Edejeghwro
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This paper explores the relationship between slow structural transformation and the growth of the informal sector in francophone Africa, where formal firms and labor-intensive manufacturing have not grown as they did in Asia. We offer a set of expla…
Ahmadou Aly Mbaye
Nancy Benjamin
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This paper uses Kenyan trade data published up through May 2020 to provide a preliminary evaluation of the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on regional trade in the East African Community (EAC). Paradoxically, given the prevailing pessimism surrounding…
Andrew Mold
Anthony Mveyange
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Every few years, since 2008, South Africa is rocked by xenophobic violence. Houses are burnt, shops are looted, and people are killed, injured, or forced out of their homes and communities. This violence usually erupts under the pretext that foreign…
Dominique Dryding
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