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East African rail networks of the future
The Africa Report has a good piece on regional investments in rail networks across East Africa. Progress was already slow, and will likely stall entirely due to coronavirus for some time. But here’s...
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Uganda’s economic response to COVID-19: the case for immediate household relief
Pleased to share that I recently contributed a bit to a smart policy brief from the Centre for Development Alternatives in Kampala about options for economic relief to households during the pandemic....
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Africa Update for April 2020
Here’s the latest edition of Africa Update. I’m going to guarantee you a nearly coronavirus-free edition, because I collect links for the newsletter over the course of roughly a month and can’t put it...
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Here’s what I’ve been looking forward to reading recently! Eric Edmonds and Caroline Theoharides. 2020. “The short term impact of a productive asset transfer in families with child labor: Experimental...
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Africa Update for May 2020
The latest edition of Africa Update is out! We’ve got mental health in Ghana, home brewing in South Africa, vintage Somali May Day celebrations, Nigerian digital art, and more. Photos from last year’s...
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The politics of Ugandan public transport during the pandemic
Kampala’s downtown Old Taxi Park stands empty during the lockdown, via The Independent One of the most unusual features of Uganda’s coronavirus lockdown has been a ban on both public and private...
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Here’s what I’ve been looking forward to reading this month! Ola Olsson, Maria Eriksson Baaz, and Peter Martinsson. 2020. “Fiscal capacity in ‘post’-conflict states: Evidence from trade on Congo...
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After a bit of a blogging hiatus, I’m back! Here are the recent articles that I’m looking forward to reading. James Habyarimana, Ken Ochieng’ Opalo, and Youdi Schipper. 2020. “The Cyclical Electoral...
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Africa Update for October 2021
The latest edition of Africa Update is out! We’ve got Africa’s 100 largest cities, debates on gun policy in Nigeria, 13 films on the queer African experience, an ambitious plan to refill Lake Chad,...
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Here’s what I’m looking forward to reading soon! These papers are all freely available online, and feature research on the global South by Southern researchers. (And as a special feature, don’t miss...
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