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South Sudan Wants to Build a New Capital in a Former Rhino Sanctuary

14/07/2021 - Leave a Comment

Despite being only 10 years old, South Sudan has already been beset by economic challenges, bitter disputes with its neighbours and the remnants of a five-year civil war that claimed almost 400,000 lives.  The …

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Another IMF Loan Feared For Kenya

26/05/202127/05/2021 - Leave a Comment

Kenya is suffering from a financial crisis, and the government has invited the IMF back. But those who survived the IMF and World Bank Structural Adjustment Programmes of the ’80s …

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A sky-high tariff on smartphones is keeping people offline in Zimbabwe

18/02/202119/02/2021 - Leave a Comment

Despite experiencing substantial growth in internet users in the last decade, Zimbabwe, a country of 14.7 million, still suffers from underutilized mobile internet capacity and low smartphone penetration, according to the latest annual …

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Côte d’Ivoire’s informal economy has come online and the government’s not happy

16/02/202119/02/2021 - Leave a Comment

Entrepreneurs in Côte d’Ivoire are circumventing high retail rents and government bureaucracy to start businesses online, resulting in a thriving informal digital economy. From baby clothes to handmade jewelry, small …

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African free trade bloc opens for business, but challenges remain

01/01/2021 - Leave a Comment

African countries began officially trading under a new continent-wide free trade area on Friday (1 January), after months of delays caused by the global coronavirus pandemic. But experts view the …

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Colonial economics

17/12/202002/01/2022 - 1 Comment

Post pandemic, which issues need to be added and reincorporated into the development economics curriculum? Kevin Deane asks. There is a strong argument that Covid  is not an external shock …

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Accentuate the positive

02/04/202009/01/2022 - Leave a Comment

It all started with hope. Now we have viral infection. But there is still hope. I came up with “hope” as the theme for this issue in the autumn. I was …

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A World Away

20/09/201920/09/2019 - Leave a Comment

Economics training in Africa has long been funded by the World Bank so it keeps to the narrow track of mainstream economics – as do the economic policies in Africa. …

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Ghana to Kick-start Year of Ambition at Africa Climate Summit

15/01/201929/03/2022 - Leave a Comment

UN Climate Change, 15 January 2019 – The provisional program for Africa Climate Week 2019, which is being hosted from 18–22 March in Accra, Ghana, has now been published online …

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