Can the ‘super year for nature’ be salvaged? Reflecting on Earth Day 2020
The year 2020 was billed as a ‘Super Year for Nature’ – a year of important global negotiations on the future of biodiversity, oceans governance and climate, culminating in the 15th Conference of Parties (COP15) of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in October 2020 in China.
Renewed urgency to implement the African Continental Free Trade Area: How can Africa prepare now?
In recent weeks, the COVID-19 pandemic has had a massive impact on the world.
Improving sub-Saharan African access to climate change finance: An alternative view
To date, only a fraction of climate finance has benefitted sub-Saharan Africa. The availability of finance is not commensurate with current needs and resource deployment has a tendency to be more donor-centric than recipient-focused.
Exploring pooled finance for South Africa
In response to the need for local authorities to have access to/receive resources that match their responsibilities, there has been a concerted effort to support the development of new local government (LG) financial tools and deepen financial innovation.
Are states ready to commit to providing global public goods?
Covid-19 is the crisis no one expected to happen in our generation despite frequent speculation about the potential impact of the recurrence of the Spanish flu of 1918.
Women traders in East Africa: The case study of the Busia One-Stop Border Post
Across the continent, African countries are implementing various projects to improve intraregional trade, with a specific focus on improved trade facilitation and the constraints that impede cross-border trade.
Fragile African health systems face COVID-19 catastrophe
By March 31, Africa had 5,431 confirmed cases of COVID-19, with almost a quarter (1,353) in South Africa, followed by 656 in Egypt and 584 in Algeria.
‘Africa’s China’: Chinese Manufacturing Investments in Nigeria in the Post-Oil Boom Era and Channels for Technology Transfer
This study outlines major Chinese investments in Nigeria’s manufacturing sectors, specifically looking at their potential to foster industrialization and structural transformation.
Africa after COVID-19 and the retreat of globalism
A few weeks into the COVID-19 pandemic, the consensus is that the world will not be the same again.
COVID-19 and the crisis of national development
The global practice of monetising ecosystems to further national economic development has laid fertile ground for the COVID-19 pandemic and others like it.