SAJIA Vol 30.4 Explores Qatar, Türkiye and the Muslim Brotherhood in the Mena Region, and More
The latest issue of the South African Journal of International Affairs includes several articles on varied topics, including one on the formation of the alliance between Qatar, Türkiye and the Muslim Brotherhood in the Middle East and North African region.
China’s Central Bank Digital Currency: A New Force in African Finance?
As in the case of China, but perhaps even more so across Africa, the potential of CBDCs is immense because they can help address various challenges that the continent has been grappling with for years.
Listening Beyond the Echo Chamber: Emerging Middle Powers Report 2024
A survey of nearly 1,000 experts from three emerging middle powers (India, Brazil and South Africa) as well as from Germany shows that, despite differences among the four countries, there is a common basis for more meaningful engagement and joint approaches for international reform.
Macroeconomic Resilience: The Cases of Senegal and Mali
Senegal and Mali must act quickly to develop their resilience against future crises. This requires implementing countercyclical fiscal and monetary policies and strengthening their trade, industry, human capital and governance performance.
Macroeconomic Resilience of Tanzania and Kenya
Both Tanzania and Kenya’s tax systems are overly complicated. Policy options to build resilience require simplifying the tax system by considering the EAC tax harmonisation agreement.
AU Lays Foundations for Progressive Customs, Monetary and Fiscal Union
Since the implementation of the heavily indebted poor country programme, most African countries have re-accumulated even higher external and domestic debt burdens, albeit on a broader and deeper monetary and financial base.
Africa’s Potential Role in Mediating the Ukraine Conflict
The conflict in Ukraine, characterised by its complexity and seemingly intractable nature, underscores the importance of potential mediators in constructing avenues for dialogue.
Internet Shutdowns Threaten Democracy in World’s Biggest Voting Year
When governments shut down the internet during elections, they prevent citizens from fully exercising their rights to access information and hold authorities accountable.
Navigating South Africa’s Geopolitical Energy Transition by 2050
Geopolitical energy justice extends beyond national boundaries and encompasses international agreements and cooperation, to address energy-related challenges such as resource distribution and specific policies to redress energy disparities.
Building Macroeconomic Resilience Through Counter-Cyclical Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa
The institutional capacity to effectuate countercyclical monetary and fiscal policy is influenced by the quality of governance, particularly regulatory quality, political stability, and voice and accountability, and of human capital formation.