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Street sales are a source of jobs, income and survival for the urban poor in Ghana.
The activities of artisanal small-scale miners can be turned into an economic good.
As much as 31% of grant beneficiaries engage in informal work to ‘grow’ their income.
To focus on sustainable development goals, platforms need to change from being exclusively focused on profits and value appropriation to perceiving themselves as public goods.
The demand for donkey hides to produce ejiao has led to a shortage of donkeys in China and increasingly worldwide.
Budgets are imperative for people to manage their resources and attain financial goals.
Inflation is perhaps the biggest poverty accelerator in the economy due to its weakening effect on people’s purchasing power.
Ghana’s early lockdown strategy impacted an already vulnerable working class.
Debates centred on the role of recreational hunting in supporting nature conservation and local people’s livelihoods are among the most polarising in conservation today.
Africa’s blue economy initiatives focused on economic outcomes. Limited attention was given to social equity and ecological sustainability.
Africa’s leaders need to implement COVID-19 policies that protects African economies from the health crisis.
By using the simple technique of harvesting when the lower leaves begin to turn to yellow, yam farmers can determine the earliest possible time to harvest.
As Addis Ababa develops into a modern city, beggars are increasingly being treated like public nuisances and criminals.
A massive rural on-grid electrification programme in Rwanda has delivered considerable benefits. But is it the most sensible way to deliver power to remote areas?
Social ties between Lake Victoria’s fisherfolk are critical for gaining access to credit, employment, maintaining reliable and skilled labour and access to markets.
At society’s margins, people without access to the mainstream job economy are able to carve out lives rich in other resources and community.
In the absence of trading ivory, other solutions have to be found to fund conservation and support communities living on the front line of the battle against poaching.
Without careful policy consideration the rise of artisanal and small-scale mining in resource rich African countries stands to disturb agricultural activity and associated livelihoods.
There is no one perfect package for alleviating poverty, but there is agreement on what the elements should be. Combination and sequence of interventions varies, depending on context and beneficiaries.
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Professor and Director, World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), United Nations University
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PhD student, Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration (IDHEAP), Université de Lausanne
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Research Fellow, Institute of Development Studies
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Research Fellow, Institute of Development Studies
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Associate Professor in Conservation Geography, University of Helsinki
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Senior Research Associate, Institute for the Future of Knowledge, University of Johannesburg
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Professor of Social Development Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Associate Professor, Anthropology & Marine Affairs, University of Rhode Island
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Professor of Anthropology and Marine Affairs, University of Rhode Island
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PhD Candidate, Université d’Antananarivo
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Lecturer, University of St Andrews
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Professor of Environment and Development, University of Birmingham
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Professor, Leibniz Institute for Economic Research
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Associate Professor in Childhood Studies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
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Matthew Flinders Professor of Global Ecology and Models Theme Leader for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, Flinders University
