Africa

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Energy for Growth with Todd Moss – CGD Podcast
Holly Shulman
November 06, 2018
Todd Moss, CGD senior fellow and executive director of the recently-launched Energy for Growth Hub, on why the Hub was created, how big the energy gap is, and why the tradeoff between residential and industrial energy isn’t really a tradeoff at all.
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In Bringing a Literacy Project to Scale, has Kenya Found a Holy Grail?
Barbara Bruns
October 26, 2018
An article of faith among development economists is that “evidence-based policy” holds the promise of faster progress. Barbara Bruns set out to find a rigorously evaluated pilot whose evidence had led to a program at scale. It wasn’t easy.
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Can Africa Show How Gig Workers Get a Fair Share in the Digital Economy?
Amolo Ng’weno
and
David Porteous
October 15, 2018
The digital economy and the gig economy are on a collision course in Africa. For decades, the informal sector has been the engine of employment growth across the continent, with gig work a big part of that.
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Let’s Be Real: The Informal Sector and the Gig Economy are the Future, and the Present, of Work in Africa
Amolo Ng’weno
and
David Porteous
October 15, 2018
It’s time we recognized the truth about the future of work in Africa: it isn’t in the growth of full-time formal sector jobs. The future of work will be people working multiple gigs with “somewhat formal” entities. This is already true, and it will be for the foreseeable futu...
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Another Hidden Horror of 21st Century Conflict: Children’s Suffering
Nancy Birdsall
and
Embry Howell
October 10, 2018
This year’s Nobel Peace Prize, awarded last week to Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad, calls attention to sexual violence during war and civil conflicts—a horror too often unstated and wished away. There’s another largely hidden horror the world needs to reckon with: the toll that...
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The EU Alliance with Africa: Is It Old Wine in New Bottles?
Mikaela Gavas
and
Hannah Timmis
October 02, 2018
The Alliance aims to deepen economic relations between the two continents by boosting private investment and trade. The Commission is billing the proposals as a “radical shift” in the EU’s approach to development cooperation in Africa that will take the relationship &ldqu...
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Tanzania Outlaws Fact-checking, Seeks World Bank Aid to Create New Facts
Justin Sandefur
September 28, 2018
Following the playbook of Argentina and Greece, Tanzania has criminalized scrutiny of its economic and social data—creating a quandary for its international creditors.