This blog is cross-posted from the main IFPRI website and was written by Johan Swinnen, Director General of IFPRI. April 6, 2020 As the world battles the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic and the social and economic disruption it is generating, concern a... Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program
COVID-19 lockdowns threaten Africa’s vital informal urban food trade
This blog is cross-posted from the main IFPRI website, written by Danielle Resnick Informal food markets are vital to feeding African cities, venues the poor rely on to buy and sell fresh food. Danielle Resnick argues that as governments impose COVID-1... Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program
Public investment choices by local and central governments
A new journal article by Katrina Kosec and Tewodaj Mogues. Abstract: This paper examines the impacts of devolving authority for public resource allocation to local governments in a setting of limited electoral control. Such a setting differs from that assumed by seminal formal models of devolution, but describes many developing countries. This study presents a […] Source: IFPRI Ethiopia: Ethiopia Strategy Support Program
Youth and jobs in rural Africa: Beyond stylized facts
The share of working-age young people in Africa south of the Sahara has risen due to past declines in mortality coupled with high fertility. This “youth bulge” has created a sense of urgency among national governments and the international development community as the prospect of widespread youth unemployment in Africa, and the social instability and […] Source: IFPRI Ethiopia: Ethiopia Strategy Support Program
Book Launch: Youth and Jobs in Rural Africa
The share of working-age young people in Africa south of the Sahara has risen due to past declines in mortality coupled with high fertility. This “youth bulge” has created a sense of urgency among national governments and the international development ... Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program
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