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If growth is the metric that counts, this is not yet the turning point that will deliver rising living standards and jobs for all.
Digital identification is supposed to provide identity to all people. But sometimes it blocks access to essential services.
Caregivers in Botswana are being asked to do more with less.
If conditions for private investment in the transmission infrastructure are not put in place, it’s likely that loadshedding will return in 2029.
One thing is certain: there will be ongoing contestation over the path and pace of South Africa’s electricity reforms.
Contracting out healthcare requires state capacity and public participation.
Technology can help countries with high levels of informal workers build stronger tax systems, if there are strong foundations and the right incentives.
Rating agencies shape the policy space for pursuing development goals. Yet they remain private firms, operating under commercial incentives.
Finance ministers should stay away from debt negotiations because their interests are more short term.
African countries can move from being price takers to price negotiators. They should be able to reduce debt costs, freeing up resources for development.
Instead of disconnected projects driven by external priorities, a country platform enables governments to set the agenda and direct finance to where it is needed.
A successful African rating agency would shift power in global finance.
A new report by the non-profit organisation Action Aid calculates that wealthier countries owe Africa US$36 trillion in climate debt.
Trump’s power is not absolute. It is constrained by the relative decline in US power in the world.
African finance ministries should push for lower interest rates on bonds.
African countries need to unite and negotiate strongly at COP29 for more climate change adaptation grants and fewer loans that only leave the continent paying back debt.
African countries are being driven into a debt dependency cycle. Three major factors are at play.
Cities, which account for 70% of emissions globally, should be at the frontline of tackling some of the most severe effects of climate change.
African countries can’t afford to tread water waiting for the global multilateral and private financing system to become more equitable.
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Post Doctoral Researcher, Graduate School of Business (GSB), University of Cape Town
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Professor at the Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance, University of Cape Town
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Research associate at African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town
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Senior Fellow, Centre for Policy Research (UNU-CPR), United Nations University; Aston University
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Head of the Division of Public Health Medicine in the School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town
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Distinguished Professor of Sustainable Development, Stellenbosch University
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Visiting Adjunct Professor, African Energy Leadership Centre, Wits Business School, University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior Lecturer, University of Botswana
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Associate Professor, University of Botswana
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Researcher and Data Manager at Family Caregiving Programme for Older Persons in Southern Africa, University of Cape Town
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Doctoral candidate, University of Cape Town
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Professor of Sociology, University of Cape Town
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Digital Research Fellow, Institute of Development Studies
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Senior Research Associate, Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, University of Cape Town
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Professor/Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria