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There are at least five errors that marred the currency redesign policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria, most of which could have been avoided.
High rural poverty rates are driven largely by fuel and transport costs.
Adverse childhood experiences are associated with an increased risk of mental health problems in adulthood.
Zambia has progressively incorporated green-based policy interventions since the 1960s.
What a new president needs to know as he takes the reins of a deeply divided and disillusioned country.
Poverty drives vulnerability to climate risks in Port Harcourt, Nigeria.
Chad fulfils all conditions to be affected by Islamist terrorism. But the threat so far comes from its neighbours, not from the inside.
After 24 years of democracy, women still struggle for political relevance in Nigeria - limited by poverty, corruption and other factors.
ParentsNext requires the parents of very young children to perform monitored activities in return for Centrelink payments. Eve Vincent talks to single mothers about ‘the indignity of investigation’.
South Africans are actively challenging the criminalisation of the state. Many of the revelations about fraud, corruption and nepotism come from principled whistle-blowers within the state.
Widows and single women are losing their homes, after being told they can no longer work by the Taliban, and are living on the poverty line.
The future and fate of Nigeria depends on the strength of character and dedication of the incoming president.
The findings show that Zambian agricultural policies do reduce headcount poverty and inequality.
Lowering spatial inequalities can reduce economic and social inequities.
South Africa’s world-leading wage inequality has as much to do with what bosses are doing as it does with how educated or experienced workers are.
Year after year, challenges have distracted the country from its agricultural expansion goals.
Four-fifths of the first-generation Turkish men who came to Europe as guest-workers and ended up settling there lived below an income poverty line.
As the year ends, how has New Zealand fared on global and domestic measurements, from social and economic freedoms to tackling poverty and homelessness?
From the economic perspective, the year 2022 will be remembered, by many Nigerians, as a time of dashed hopes and disappointments.
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Professor of Social Development Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Professor of Economics & Business, Allegheny College
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Professor of Political Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Professor, Sol Plaatje University
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Pro Vice-Chancellor, Climate, Sustainability and Inequality and Director, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior Fellow, Department of Agricultural Economics, Stellenbosch University
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Director of the Roy McKenzie Centre for the Study of Families and Children, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Professor of Economics, Fordham University
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Senior Research Fellow, World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), United Nations University
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DSTI/NRF Research Chair in Welfare and Social Development, University of Johannesburg
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Distinguished Research Fellow, Human Sciences Research Council
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Honorary Research Fellow, City Political Economy Research Centre, City St George's, University of London
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Dean of the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, University of Pretoria
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Senior Researcher, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand