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With a monthly minimum wage of 30,000 Naira (US$72), the average Nigerian worker is groaning under the weight of the rising cost of living.
In the face of rising food prices in Nigeria, many salary earners have had to change the quality of foodstuff they buy or opt for cheaper alternatives.
As a dynamic and mechanising form of production, artisanal mining is in more direct competition with large corporations than is commonly perceived.
Whereas digital work can bring freedom and flexibility into the lives of workers in Africa, it can also contribute towards their precarity and vulnerability.
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.
Finding a way to increase the participation of men and fathers in unpaid care work would have an important influence on a more equal distribution between women and men.
Many unemployed young people are engaged in a variety of economic activities. These may not necessarily be recognised as a form of self employment or informal employment.
Africa is far from having an ageing farming population. What is missing is a critical mass of skilled, young farmers with access to finance who could drive productivity in farming.
It is time for Ghana to consider the future of its cocoa farmers rather than multinational chocolate producers.
We found that women who had access to subsidised day-care services were 17% more likely to be employed than those who were not.
The protest song “Stimela” remains as much a song about present and future aspirations, as it is of the past.
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Professor of Economics & Business, Allegheny College
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Research fellow, Stellenbosch University
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Lecturer in International Development, University of Bath
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MSU Foundation Professor, Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics, Michigan State University
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Associate Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Professor of Development Studies, University of Fort Hare
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African Population and Health Research Center
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Associate Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Research associate, UCL
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Assistant Professor of International Development, Michigan State University
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Senior Researcher, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior Lecturer in Finance, Covenant University
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MenCare Intern, Sonke Gender Justice
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Lecturer in African Studies and International Development, The University of Edinburgh
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Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow, The University of Edinburgh
