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Small and medium-scale farmers and agri-businesses in Southern and Eastern Africa, which are at the heart of inclusive food value chains, are not receiving fair prices for their produce.
Big Food companies producing ulta-processed foods are using a range of key market and political practices to increase their reach, particularly in developing countries.
Corporate governance reforms should be viewed as a cog within a big wheel and accompanied by appropriate changes to the enabling infrastructure.
To non-economists, the World Bank ranking Nigeria fifth on the list of its top ten debtor countries is alarming. A deeper analysis shows there is no cause for concern.
Racial and gender disparities in access to work are entrenched features of the South African labour market.
To rebuild lost credibility, the South African government can start by listening to social partners and the business sector and implementing less financially costly policies
Nigeria’s new petroleum law will make its petroleum industry as competitive and attractive to investors as its peers.
The alarming rise in ransomware attacks means that many state-owned enterprises and private sector firms are only one click away from disaster.
Central banking was given to technocrats whose job is to make the difficult decisions. But there are parameters. And within these, central bankers must act independently, without fear or favour.
Ghanaian city authorities are focused on addressing problems of poverty, education and health rather than managing green spaces in slums
Kenya’s digital service taxes could end up punishing struggling start-ups that shifted into the digital space for survival.
Youth unemployment in Nigeria is a skills mismatch problem – corporations can’t find suitable workers in the midst of a large pool of unemployed workers.
The IMF’s injection of US$650 billion worth of Special Drawing Rights into the global economy opens a window for African countries to reform their relationship with the fund.
The US-Africa trade pact has had a significant impact on stimulating export trade – but African countries have not realised its full potential.
Most of the million gardners employed in South Africa earn less than the minimum wage.
Nixon’s decision left the IMF without a clearly defined role. Under the leadership of the industrialised countries, it began to fashion a new more intrusive and ideological role.
Basic income must be embedded within a broader strategy of economic reform, aimed at increasing the social wage and improving working conditions.
In his new book, Nigeria Democracy Without Development: How To Fix It, international political economist Omano Edigheji explains why democracy has not led to development in Nigeria.
Eurobonds are costly for governments. But they are also attractive because investors buy them without preconditions.
In this moment of crisis, South Africa urgently needs decisive action. But all too often South Africans of all political stripes seem trapped in stale discourses.
For conservationists and the government, religion and culture could serve to discourage the overharvesting of bushmeat from the wild
In the formal real estate industry, there is an emerging narrative that affordable housing deficits in African cities represent a vast untapped market
An agency could accelerate land reform by removing the process from political and bureaucratic control.
There is no substance to the view that poor people are lazy and prefer to live on handouts from the state rather than seek work.