South Africa needs to harness its service sector into an innovative and export orientated way to push back poverty, unemployment and inequality.
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The protest song “Stimela” remains as much a song about present and future aspirations, as it is of the past.
Researchers have found a way to measure the impact of air pollution during 19th-century England on the public’s health.
Most African cities are expensive, informal and non-industrial. This has produced unique socioeconomic and environmental risks that must be carefully considered in policy development.
An interactive map of global carbon-dioxide emissions, from 1750 to 2010, provides a better understanding of the roles of different countries in the ongoing climate crisis.
The risk following recently ended economic booms in Africa is that, due to insufficient planning and excessive optimism, the windfalls were wasted. But there are signs that Africa may be changing.
The ‘Africa Rising’ narrative was disturbed in 2016 by a combination of factors. But the continent is still on firm economic development footing.
Developing countries, specifically in sub-Saharan Africa, are urbanising without industrialising, a trajectory that leaves them with relatively higher poverty rates and share of slums.
Zambia’s drive to build its industrial capabilities has made steady progress. But it runs up against the history of economies that are dominated by mineral resources and landlocked countries.
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Associate Professor, Oxford School of Global and Area Studies/ History, University of Oxford
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Visiting professor, Strathmore University
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Associate Professor of Economics, University of Houston
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Assistant Professor of Economics and International Affairs, George Washington University
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Research Director, Centre for Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators, Human Sciences Research Council
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Lead Academic, Ethiopia team, University of Oxford
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Executive Head of the Centre for Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators, Human Sciences Research Council
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Économiste à l’Observatoire français des conjonctures économiques (OFCE), Sciences Po
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Senior Research Fellow New South Institute, Emeritus Professor at The Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance, University of Cape Town
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Professor of Development Studies, University of Fort Hare
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Professor: International Business & Strategy, Wits Business School, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate Professor of International Development, Dublin City University
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Lecturer in Global Urban Development, University of Manchester
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Associate lecturer, University of Venda
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Country (Zambia) Economist and Researcher, International Growth Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science