Despite evidence that cash payments can help improve well-being, they have limitations as well, according to a development economist.
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Medium-term expenditure frameworks can be useful only when they are based on comprehensive medium-term development plans.
There is a need to be alive to tensions between short- and long-term objectives, as well as the assumptions we hold around what we consider to be “better” and how to achieve it.
Side agreements signed by some wealthy nations threaten to undercut global efforts to ensure a fairly equitable worldwide vaccination effort.
South Africa’s National Treasury now proposes to reduce salaries. On the face of it this seems sensible. But the fundamental issue is the structure of the public service.
Zimbabwe wants to issue a sovereign bond to raise $3.5 billion it has agreed to pay as compensation to white farmers, but the economic and political conditions aren’t conducive to such an issuance.
African countries should tread carefully over the debt relief offered by multilateral institutions and other lenders. It could prove very costly in the medium to long term.
The Nigerian government must adopt a process that is open in implementing its social assistance programmes.
The World Bank is giving $160 billion to help bolster the world’s weaker health systems – but it needs to do more.
A blanket solution to Africa’s debt burden risks costing African countries dearly in terms of access to international capital markets and the relatively lower cost of borrowing.
The IMF/World Bank spring meetings offer Africa an opportunity to put on the table what it needs to mitigate the impact of COVID-19.
The biggest lesson has been that controlling a disease outbreak like Ebola is impossible without community trust and engagement.
Taking Sudan off America’s list of terror is just one step in the country’s journey to economic recovery
The World Bank’s latest report on Nigeria deserved closer scrutiny, just like the opinions of economic experts outside government.
The Modi boom was built on sand – and now the tide has come in.
A new push to focus development efforts on big infrastructure projects could have unitended consequences.
Small-scale fisheries buffer poverty and hunger in coastal countries.
Abolishing the secretive World Bank Tribunal known as the ISDS won’t solve all of the problems of global economic governance. But it seems a very good place to start.
Ghana has completed yet another IMF financial assistance programme. Given its long history of living within its means and then blowing the budget again, will it be knocking on the IMF’s doors soon?
Cyclone Idai showed just how unprepared SADC is to respond to major natural disasters.
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