Hard work and poor prospects for smallholder farming households in Africa.
Swathi Sridharan (formerly ICRISAT, Bulawayo)
Smallholder farming might not be able to generate enough value on its own, but farmers still need support.
Leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters Julius Malema (C) addresses the media after local elections in 2016.
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Political mistrust is high as the country looks to the next municipal elections in 2021.
Johannesburg: one of three South African cities in which coalitions have collapsed.
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Successful coalition governance ultimately depends on political maturity and the ability to govern across divisions.
Prime minister of Ethiopia Abiy Ahmed in Addis Ababa.
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Ethiopia’s new political outfit could bring minority groups into the centre of power.
A market in the Old City of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sept. 8, 2019.
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Building a lasting peace in Afghanistan will take much more than an accord with the Taliban. In post-conflict nations, economic development and job creation are critical to national security.
Nobel Prize Laureates in Economic Sciences Michael Kremer, Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee.
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Randomised trials in development have attracted criticiism over ethical issues and questions about being effective for policy.
Plastic washed up on the seashore in Lagos, Nigeria.
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Nigeria’s government must encourage citizens to embrace a system where plastic never become waste.
Esther Duflo (L) and Abhijit Banerjee, who, along with Michael Kremer (not pictured), won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.
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The surge of interest in experimental approaches in economics began in the early 1990s.
Digital traders will not escape taxation.
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Digital transactions generate massive amounts of revenue and the Kenyan government wants to ensure that online traders pay their fair share of taxes.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa.
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The country’s national interest and human rights remain the two topics bedevilling South Africa’s foreign policy.
Large estates in Vietnam were collectivised.
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Land reform has always been closely tied to shifts in the wider political economy of countries.
An Islamic school in Nigeria.
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It is important not to take the issue of ‘torture houses’ as only peculiar to Qur’anic schools.
South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir (right) with former vice-president and rebel leader Riek Machar (left) in Juba, South Sudan.
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The international community should allow the leaders of South Sudan to work on a lasting peace agreement without the pressure of deadlines.
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Women have a crucial role to play in development initiatives.
People affected by xenophobic violence queue prior to being transported back to their countries from Johannesburg, South Africa.
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The experiences of non-nationals in South Africa’s public health care system are more complex and varied than implied by the dominant discourse on “medical xenophobia”
The results of the Namibian election reflect growing discontent among voters with the way the country is being run.
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For the first time since independence, Namibia’s ruling party has suffered electoral setbacks in the midst of economic and political crisis.
Efforts to mitigate the double edged nature of social media in politics must take into account local information environments
The government must encourage demands for the creation of new states to be an outcome of negotiations.
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In a country where there are more than 80 ethnic groups, the territorial solution isn’t a feasible solution.
Cyber insecurity is a threat to Africa’s digital economy.
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Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda are at the forefront of the war against cyber criminals.
America’s military presence in Somalia could be causing more harm than good.
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The resilience of Al-Shabaab raises questions about the effectiveness of the current US military strategy in Somalia.