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Manufacturing firms exposed to increased Chinese competition employed fewer female production workers than men.
Africa’s used vehicle dependency is often attributed to low income and weak regulation.
The government’s approach to redistributing farmland has been mostly ineffective. Failure can be attributed to limited implementation, poor institutional capacity and corruption.
The coming copper boom presents Zambia with an extraordinary opportunity – not only to enable mining profits, but to power inclusive growth.
Budgets are imperative for people to manage their resources and attain financial goals.
It is useful to recognise why companies either restrict or strengthen their sustainability efforts in response to a crisis.
From the economic perspective, the year 2022 will be remembered, by many Nigerians, as a time of dashed hopes and disappointments.
Market-led microcredit innovations dominated by profit maximisation can harm the very vulnerable.
Large scale infrastructure projects like ports represent more than just financial investments.
Africa should push for extension of AGOA rather than bilateral trade deals with the US.
Through articles written by academic experts in the course of the year, The Conversation Africa takes a look back at Ghana in 2022.
African countries are essentially placed in the position of a supplicant appealing to the kindness of creditors.
Education can’t make up for inadequacies in other policies that continue to cause mass unemployment.
Based on official statistics, we conclude that the country has made more progress towards land reform than is generally suggested.
African countries have few options for responding to the strong dollar. And most are challenging.
South Africa’s policies need to do more to protect vulnerable and marginalised small-scale fishers and fishing communities.
Ethiopia’s civet producers could benefit greatly if the industry were properly regulated and commercialised.
Cities, which account for 70% of emissions globally, should be at the frontline of tackling some of the most severe effects of climate change.
There are ways in which platform workers can resist the rise in job insecurity and poor working conditions brought on by digital labour platforms.
Kenyan taxpayers will ultimately shoulder the cost of the project. They have a right to all the details.
Employing children as waste pickers lowers costs but exposes them to hazards.
Lockdown measures may stop the spread of the virus. But they can also lead to a larger and more protracted public health crisis in the form of deprivation and hunger.
Serena Williams’s investment in a Nigerian digital company shows why the country’s technology sector is attractive.
Kenya’s GMO policy about-turn was underpinned by improved safeguards on top of a commitment to review each new application on a case-by-case basis.