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Changing Perspectives: SSB Tax is key to Addressing Obesity in Nigeria
Obesity is on the rise globally, with 1 billion people predicted will be living with the disease by 2030. Obesity is no longer just a disease of rich countries. The…
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Unlocking Africa’s Digital Potential: The Role of EU-Africa Collaboration
Introduction The digital economy is on the exponential rise due to its capability to transform and revolutionise economies and societies, influencing how we work, live, and interact. Otherwise known as…
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Highlighting CSEA’s research in the education sector
Today, the 24th of January, the world celebrates the International Day of Education to recognize the role education plays in fostering peace and development. This year’s theme is “to invest…
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Measuring Learning Is Key to Reaching Education Goals: The Case of Nigeria
Learning assessments have played a key role in highlighting the extent of the learning crisis in Nigeria. The next step to addressing learning is improving assessments to close data gaps…
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Why Nigeria should Strengthen Mobile Money: Some Stylized Facts
Nigeria continues to miss its financial inclusion targets. Many constraints around the formal banking system have meant that a greater percentage of the Nigerian population remains excluded from the formal…
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Learning trajectories: A practical tool for tracking learning and taking action
Learning trajectories are graphs that show how many children achieve a certain level of minimum proficiency at each grade. While learning trajectories have previously been used for research, two new efforts…
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Proposed 2023 budget: Low Commitment to Capital Spending
The proposed 2023 budget Bill was presented on October 07, 2022. While presenting the budget, President Muhammadu Buhari highlighted the revenue challenge, which may have influenced the size of the…
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Five ways to build resilience in Nigeria’s education system
COVID-19 has compounded a long-standing learning crisis in many African countries, where millions of children were already out of school before the pandemic. Nigeria has the highest rate of out-of-school…
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How growing up during a Drought can affect Labour Opportunities later in Life
Amina and Yakubu grew up in the northern part of Nigeria in the 1970s. In early childhood, they experienced one of the worst droughts. They lost the quality of their…
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The role of Industries Without Smokestacks (IWOSS) in addressing Nigeria’s unemployment crisis
In 2020, Nigeria’s population was estimated to be above 200 million and about 61 percent (122 million) of the population were within the working age. Out of the 122 million…
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Foundations For Pro-development Digital Governance Framework in Africa
Today, the increasing value of digitalisation and data to global development has received widespread attention. A great number of structural transformations have been driven by means of digital technologies. Digital…
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Promoting an effective tobacco tax system to save lives and the environment
‘Tobacco use is killing us and our planet’! Annually, tobacco use kills about 8 million people globally and 29,000 people in Nigeria. The economic costs of tobacco attributable disease on…
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New Digital Governance Platform: Why It Matters For Policymakers
Digital innovations are advancing at a rapid pace, connecting businesses, individuals, governments around the world and creating exciting opportunities. These opportunities provide numerous benefits and major gains in terms of…
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AI & Gender – Bridging the gap
The rapid growth of AI is swiftly changing the world of work and business. Embedded in this growth is its potential to create new opportunities for gender equality. However, if…
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Developing an effective data governance framework to deliver African digital potentials
Rapid digitalization has the potential to enhance structural transformation among African countries as well as galvanize progress on regional developments like the recent African Continental Free Trade Area. However, these…
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Africa: Key issues to track in 2022
Africa enters 2022 with a long and urgent to-do list. In this blog, Adedeji Adeniran joins other experts to outline key political, economic, security and health issues the continent must…
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