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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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Poverty Alleviation via Education in Nigeria: Lessons from China
In Nigeria, approximately 50% of the estimated 193 million population live in poverty. In 2018, the World Poverty clock estimates that Nigeria has the highest number of people living in…
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Electric cars and the future of Nigeria’s oil economy
The Future Policy makers of about 13 countries including China (the largest car market in the world) and Japan (the third largest car market in the world) are pushing for…
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Three Top Priorities for Nigeria’s 2020 Power Agenda
Successive interventions, including privatization, have not yet resolved Nigeria’s persistent power sector challenges. This year, the newly-appointed Honorable Minister of Power will continue on the path towards achieving key power…
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Economic Implications of the Recent Border Closure
By Basil Anthony Abia In Brief On 20 August 2019, Nigeria partially closed its land borders with Benin, Togo, Niger, Cameroon and Chad – citing the irate level of smuggling…
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