Side agreements signed by some wealthy nations threaten to undercut global efforts to ensure a fairly equitable worldwide vaccination effort.
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South Africa's National Treasury now proposes to reduce salaries. On the face of it this seems sensible. But the fundamental issue is the structure of the public service.
Zimbabwe wants to issue a sovereign bond to raise $3.5 billion it has agreed to pay as compensation to white farmers, but the economic and political conditions aren't conducive to such an issuance.
African countries should tread carefully over the debt relief offered by multilateral institutions and other lenders. It could prove very costly in the medium to long term.
The Nigerian government must adopt a process that is open in implementing its social assistance programmes.
The World Bank is giving $160 billion to help bolster the world’s weaker health systems – but it needs to do more.
A blanket solution to Africa's debt burden risks costing African countries dearly in terms of access to international capital markets and the relatively lower cost of borrowing.
The IMF/World Bank spring meetings offer Africa an opportunity to put on the table what it needs to mitigate the impact of COVID-19.
The biggest lesson has been that controlling a disease outbreak like Ebola is impossible without community trust and engagement.
Taking Sudan off America's list of terror is just one step in the country's journey to economic recovery
The World Bank's latest report on Nigeria deserved closer scrutiny, just like the opinions of economic experts outside government.
The Modi boom was built on sand – and now the tide has come in.
A new push to focus development efforts on big infrastructure projects could have unitended consequences.
Small-scale fisheries buffer poverty and hunger in coastal countries.
Abolishing the secretive World Bank Tribunal known as the ISDS won't solve all of the problems of global economic governance. But it seems a very good place to start.
Ghana has completed yet another IMF financial assistance programme. Given its long history of living within its means and then blowing the budget again, will it be knocking on the IMF's doors soon?
Cyclone Idai showed just how unprepared SADC is to respond to major natural disasters.
Rwanda has overcome its past to become a development miracle but if it's not careful, history could repeat itself.
Nigeria, like many emerging countries, needs to educate its women at the same rate it does its men to enhance entrepreneurship.
Countries with effective governments have reduced income poverty by almost twice the speed.
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Professor of Political Economy, University of the Witwatersrand
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Post Doctoral Researcher, Graduate School of Business (GSB), University of Cape Town
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SARCHI Professor of International Development Law and African Economic Relations, University of Pretoria
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School of Social Sciences, Monash University
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Professor in The Division of Global Affairs and The Department of Political Science, Rutgers University - Newark
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Professor, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
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Professor of International Law, University of South Africa
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Senior Industry Fellow, RMIT University
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Director and Professor, Australia-China Relations Institute (ACRI), University of Technology Sydney
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Lecturer, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Professor of Urban Policy and Director, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Banking and Finance, Monash University
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Adjunct Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Professor of Economics, The University of Queensland
