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Since 2016, an unprecedented wave of violence has swept across an area of central Mali to the south and south east of Mopti. The attackers – jihadists, the self-defence groups mobilised against them and others – target civilians in acts of mass kill…
International Crisis Group (ICG)
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The COVID crisis has cast its dark shadow in the IGAD region at the worst time as it came on top of problems of the weak or fragile states, lack of capacity, widespread poverty and food insecurity, conflicts, and the desert locust invasion. Many of …
The Horn Economic and Social Policy Institute (HESPI) in Ethiopia
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Smoking is a pandemic that will cause 10 million deaths in 2030 of which 70% in developing countries if nothing is done. To curb this trend, the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control was set up in 2005 with a set of monitoring indicators to assess…
Consortium pour la Recherche Économique et Sociale (CRES)
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This study was driven by the fact that inflation has become one of the binding constraints for policy makers both in their short- and long-term efforts to advance economic progress. There is a growing need to examine the commodity wise contributions…
Atnafu Gebremeskel
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There was a huge outcry when videos of mistreatment of Africans in the Chinese city of Guangzhou went viral on social media in April 2020. This was after authorities in Guangdong province introduced stringent measures to curb the spread of COVID-19.…
Mabutho Ngcobo
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South Africa has been in a long-run, low-growth trap since the onset of democratic rule in 1994, resulting in persistently high rates of unemployment and relatedly rising income inequality levels. In the absence of manufacturing sector growth, “indu…
Zaakhir Asmal
Haroon Bhorat
Robert Hill
Jabulile
Morné Oosthuizen
Christopher Rooney
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The COVID-19 pandemic has had severe and potentially long-lasting impacts on the South African economy since the onset of the national lockdown in March 2020. These effects have not been equally distributed. Employment effects have been disproportio…
Robert Hill
Tim Köhler
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Aside from the health/mortality effects of the pandemic in Nigeria, the seemingly clearer effect is the impact of the social distancing and lockdown measures on the economy. How people make a living and access markets is impacted by covid-19 across …
Andrew G Onokerhoraye
Dicta Ogisi
May Nwoye
Job Imharobere Eronmhonsele
Onovughe Ikelegbe
Francis Onojeta
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Aside from the health/mortality effects of the pandemic in Nigeria, the seemingly clearer effect is the impact of the social distancing and lockdown measures on the economy. How people make a living and access markets is impacted by covid-19 across …
Job Imharobere Eronmhonsele
Dicta Ogisi
Andrew G Onokerhoraye
May Nwoye
Onovughe Ikelegbe
Francis Onojeta
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Aside from the health/mortality effects of the pandemic in Nigeria, the seemingly clearer effect is the impact of the social distancing and lockdown measures on the economy. How people make a living and access markets is impacted by covid-19 across …
Dicta Ogisi
Andrew G Onokerhoraye
May Nwoye
Onovughe Ikelegbe
Job Imharobere Eronmhonsele
Francis Onojeta
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After a period of waning influence, South Africa is beginning to reclaim its place on the world stage as a responsive and capable player on peace and security on the continent, in the region and internationally. Despite recent efforts, its role as a…
Priyal Singh
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Sahelian countries are facing political changes that negatively affect the African continent as a whole. This paper, while addressing the issue of armies and their implications in conflict zones, particularly in Mali, a stumbling block in the region…
Youssef Tobi
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Increased access and use of the Internet has led to the advancement of online labour, which is driving the gig economy. The ‘platformisation’ of the global economy enables virtual labour mobility—the remote buying and selling of digital labour, whic…
Onkokame Mothobi
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The Southern African Customs Union (SACU) – the oldest organization of its kind in the world, with roots dating back to 1889 – unites Botswana, eSwatini, Lesotho, Namibia, and South Africa in promoting economic development through regional coordinat…
Ziyanda Stuurman
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Africa’s media landscape is changing rapidly. Regular reliance on digital sources for news has nearly doubled in just five years, with more than one-third of respondents across 18 countries surveyed reporting that they turn to the Internet or social…
Jeffrey Conroy-Krutz
Joseph Koné
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A significant fraction of recently surveyed Ethiopian rural and urban households report income losses related to the COVID-19 pandemic. This study estimates how large these income losses are likely to be and the consequent impact on the poverty s…
Feiruz Yimer
Mohammed Alemayehu
Alemayehu Seyoum Taffesse
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This paper estimates the poverty consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic and its fiscal implications in Ghana using a micro-simulation analytical approach applied to household level data collected in 2016/2017 by the Ghana Statistical Service. The res…
Haruna Issahaku
Benjamin Musah Abu
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The economic and social costs of COVID-19 pandemic have been felt across the globe. With new infections on the rise, it is a race against time for governments to re-look at some policy interventions necessary to provide appropriate coping and recove…
Nancy Nafula
Dennis Kyalo
Boaz Munga
Rose Wanjiru Ngugi
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This paper aims to assess the short-run distributional impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Senegal by specifically looking at income losses, poverty and inequality impacts, and how the Government would go about offsetting them. Using a detailed house…
Abdoulaye Seck
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Climate change is one of the most significant intergenerational equity challenges of our time. Young people – who currently represent over 50% of the global population – are the generation who will not only be most impacted by climate change, but wh…
Alex Benkenstein
Romy Chevallier
Desirée Kosciulek
Ditebogo Lebea
Kiara Worth
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