Economics
Why Is Tax Collection Low in Nigeria? Historical and Cultural Explanations for Nigeria’s Low Domestic Resource Mobilization
Despite being Africa’s largest economy, Nigeria is one of the poorest. In 2017, Nigeria had one of the lowest tax-to-GDP ratios in the world. Read more. Read More...
Government Control in the Digital Age The Economic Impacts of Internet Shutdowns
Internet shutdowns are employed by governments seeking to control the flow of information to a population, often without justifiable reason. Read more. Read More...
Two Windows COVID-19 and the World Bank’s Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility
The Ebola Crisis motivated the World Bank to launch the Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility in 2016. But how effective has the PEF been in dealing with COVID-19? Read more. Read More...
Electrons Are Free but Not Electricity Finding the Right Price for Electricity in Nigeria
There are over 90 million Nigerians with no access to the electricity grid. Could overregulation and irregular pricing be driving this challenge? Read more. Read More...
Unprofitable Diseases Ebola, COVID-19 and the Return of Industrial Policy in Africa?
Like Ebola, COVID-19 demonstrates the urgent need for domestic pharmaceutical industries in African nations. Read more. Read More...
Southern Africa’s Persistent Dilemma Coronavirus and the Lost Legacy of the AIDS Epidemic
While SARS-CoV-2 and HIV are different pathogens, comparing the viruses themselves, as well as how southern Africa has responded to them, can help us better understand the region’s current climate and provide insight into whether coronavirus and its aftermath will spur a crisis on a scale comparable to the United States. Read more. Read More...
A Monstrous Overlap COVID-19 and the New Climate Change Imperative
The preparedness of African countries to combat public health crises like the COVID-19 pandemic is debatable, it is obvious that they currently lack the capacity to transition to a low-carbon, climate-resilient economy. Read more. Read More...
Growth is not Enough Why Africa Needs Wellbeing Economies
Orienting our economies toward wellbeing requires that while we work hard toward accessible health care, we work even harder toward health creation by transforming the systems driving up the need for healthcare. Read more. Read More...
Rethinking African Progress African Development and the Significance of Sacrificial Generations
Africa’s current state of ‘underdevelopment’ is directly related to the fact that millions of Africans did not die, suffer and become dispossessed in wars of state formation and expansion. Read more. Read More...
Poor Institutions or Unfair Power Dynamics? Notes from Sierra Leone’s Alluvial Diamond Industry
For resource-rich countries like Sierra Leone to attain any sustainable development, issues related to the criminalization of natural resource extraction must first be addressed. Read more. Read More...
