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The Impact of Covid-19 on Africa’s Pre-Existing Vulnerabilities
The COVID-19 pandemic has had devasting effects in many countries across the globe, affecting every aspect of humanity. The scale of the crisis was unprecedented, with both developed and developing…
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Six Ways To Improve Nigeria’s Crumbling Transmission Network
Context: Nigeria’s transmission network has long been a weak link in the country’s electricity value chain. Despite recent improvements, the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has never dispatched more than 5.4GW…
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Ensuring learning continuity for every African child in the time of COVID-19
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, over 250 million primary and secondary children are out of school in Africa. If schools only reopen when normalcy returns, which is estimated to be in 2021…
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The Special Education Needs Of Violence-Induced Out-Of-School Children In Nigeria
The rise of Boko Haram has plunged North Eastern Nigeria, and particularly Borno State, deeper into educational crisis. While rebuilding infrastructure is already underway, and is certainly a good step,…
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Pan-African Scientific Research Council: Call for Expression of Interest
The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the stark need for African institutions of higher education that can efficiently generate and transmit knowledge in times of crisis. Now more than ever, scientists…
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Some thoughts on new poverty numbers in Nigeria
With the recent release of the 2018/2019 Harmonized Nigeria Living Standard Survey (HNLS), the true scale and scope of poverty in Nigeria will become clearer. When the World Data Lab’s…
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Why Effective Communication Is Fundamental To The Fight Against Covid 19 In Nigeria
The odds are that the world will defeat the Covid-19 pandemic in the end – prospects of an eventual vaccine are promising; and fatality rates, while devastating, have remained on…
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The case for debt relief in Africa amid COVID-19
As the world grapples with the COVID-19 pandemic, countries are putting in place significant fiscal policy measures to counteract the sudden stop in economic activities. These spending plans aim to…
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COVID 19 and the Informal Sector in Nigeria: The Socio-Economic Cost Implications
As the world is currently being ravaged by the COVID-19 pandemic, nations are grappling with how to contain the spread and limit its effect with their borders. Nigeria, Africa’s most…
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CSEA, ASE, Join Global Experts, Leaders, to Issue G20 Call to Action on World Response To Covid-19
The Centre for the Study of the Economies of Africa (CSEA) and The African School of Economics (ASE), recently lent their voices to two separate appeals to developed countries of…
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Effective Targeting of COVID-19 Aid in Nigeria
Faced with an invisible and novel enemy to fight, governments across the globe have deliberately shut down their economies and placed cities on lockdown in order to stem the spread…
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Understanding the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on the Nigerian economy
With 1.39 million coronavirus cases and 79,382 deaths globally, the world continues to battle the COVID-19 pandemic. Even before the outbreak, the outlook for the world economy—and especially developing countries like Nigeria—was fragile,…
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The implication of Covid-19 pandemic on the Nigerian Economy
The Global Health Hazards and Economic Impacts of COVID-19 In December 2019, a cluster of pneumonia cases from an unknown virus surfaced in Wuhan, China. Based on initial laboratory findings,…
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COVID-19 in Nigeria – Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) as Vulnerable Populations at Risk
Here is what we know – COVID-19 has no known cure (at the time of writing this article). We also realize that given the dearth of medical infrastructure in Nigeria,…
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The Growing Livelihood-Problem for Internally Displaced Persons in Nigeria
“I was almost killed” Amos is perched on the edge of the bench, next to me, underneath the broad shade of an old mango tree. It is mid-afternoon, and the…
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How Big is Nigeria’s Power Demand?
Context: Nigeria has Africa’s largest population and economy, but Nigerians consume 144 kwh per capita annually, only 3.5% as much as South Africans.1 With only 12 GW installed, and typically just one-third…
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