Policy Brief & Alerts
Comparative Study of Policy Responses to COVID-19 in LICs in Africa
This brief assesses the policy responses to COVID-19 among low-income countries (LICs) in Africa. Recommendations: Address the structural bottlenecks impeding the effective implementation of an appropriate policy mix by African…
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Drivers of Disparity: How Policy Responses to COVID-19 Can Increase Inequalities
Countries across the world have deployed macroeconomic policies to address the negative economic implications of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown measures. Recommendations: Divert newly available resources (such as unused…
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The Effect of the African Continental Free Trade Area on Medium Small & Micro-scale Enterprises in Nigeria
Recently, we worked with members of the organized Private Sector of Nigeria, supported by Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) Africa to research the growth potential of the African Continental…
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Green Finance Mechanisms in Developing Countries: Emerging Practice
To counter the devastating impact of COVID-19, calls are growing for countries to ‘build back better’ in an effort to create a more inclusive and sustainable economy that is climate…
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Accelerating green energy transition in Africa through regional integration
This brief examines the challenges towards green energy transition in Africa and the prospect of regional integration in fast-tracking this process. Regional integration as being proposed among African countries can…
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Reopening Schools For Learning
As part of its response to combat COVID-19, the Nigerian government temporarily closed schools. To reopen schools, effective guidelines must be developed and implemented to protect students, staff, parents, and…
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Assessing Digitalization and Data Governance Issues in Africa
The growth of digitalization and digital technology adoption in Africa holds the key to strengthening and diversifying economies across the continent. Although these developments offer potentially life-changing benefits for consumers,…
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Nigeria Education in Focus (Issue 5)
According to UNESCO, about 35.9 million primary and secondary school learners are currently out-of-school as a result of the school closures. For primary schools, this number totals approximately 25.6 million…
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Nigeria Education in Focus (Issue4)
Education is acknowledged largely as a significant tool because it equips students with the functional skills for decent living and generates human capital that can spur economic development. Education has…
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Payment Patterns in Nigeria’s Public Facilities: Unexpected costs and implications for health-seeking behavior in Nigeria
Adequate health financing is a critical element of any strong healthcare system. In Sub-Saharan Africa, financing and payment models for primary, secondary, and tertiary health care can be significant tools…
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Nigeria Education in Focus (Issue3)
Given that government does not fully cover the direct costs, parents bear a proportion of the costs of education. Although contributions from parents are expected to be small, this can…
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Nigeria Education in Focus (Issue2)
Inclusive education implies that education (quantity and quality) is accessible to all children, irrespective of their individual circumstances. However, in Nigeria, some vulnerable groups of children are found to be…
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State-owned enterprises
The Nigeria Natural Resource Charter (NNRC) Benchmarking Exercise Report (BER) 2017[1] assessed the operational activities in the nation’s oil and gas sector between 2015 and 2017 against the Natural Resource…
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Nigeria Education In Focus (Issue 1)
The existing education data in Nigeria are Millennium Development Goal (MDG) centric with focus on enrolment, transition and completion statistics, with no statistics on the extent of learning taking place…
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Managing Local Impacts
If managed properly, natural resource exploration could be beneficial to communities where extractive activities take place, either directly through transfer of resource revenues and corporate interventions or through the promotion…
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Managing Natural Resources for Sustainable Development
In most business schools and development economics classes around the world, Nigeria is used as a textbook case of “resource curse”. With more than USD 1 trillion earned from oil…
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