Social Financial Grants and Poverty Eradication in Africa
Written By: AREFDate: 2024-07-30 Views: 2005
Guest Editor: Prof. Dr. Badar Alam Iqbal, Extraordinary Professor, Department of Economic and Business Sciences, Faculty of Commerce and Administration, Walter Sisulu
University, South Africa
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Social Financial Grants and Poverty Eradication in Africa
Written By: AREFDate: 2024-07-30 Views: 267
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The haunted and the haunting: reproducing Ghana’s historical injustices during the Covid-19 pandemic
Written By: Festival Godwin Boateng, Samuel Ametepey, & Savior KusiDate: 2022-02-25 Views: 2237
Much has been written about how inequalities in access to decent and secure jobs, and adequate serviced housing undermined Ghana’s attempt to leverage lockdowns to contain the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Much l...
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How Ghana paid for its inequality sins during Covid-19 lockdowns
Written By: Festival Godwin Boateng, Samuel Ametepey, & Savior KusiDate: 2022-01-27 Views: 10087
It turns out that when you systematically marginalise people, you will have a hard time eliciting their cooperation in containing pandemics. Such evidently was the state of affairs in many African countries where the historically, spatially, economically and socially marginalised Read More
Putting economic growth at the service of human development in Djibouti
Written By: Omar Ahmed OmarDate: 2021-12-23 Views: 5908
The year 2020 was marked by an unprecedented crisis that has weakened countries around the world in terms of health, economic and social issues. As many papers in the African Review of Econom...
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We must not ignore human capital formation in the migration for development discourse
Written By: Omololá S OlárìndéDate: 2021-12-10 Views: 1455
The migration for development discourse has come full circle, from the concerns for skill depletion at origin countries to fresh perspectives on how mobility enhances skill gains in Bloom and Stark’s semi...
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The Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing
Written By: Franklin Obeng-OdoomDate: 2021-11-28 Views: 3386
Economics is caught in multiple crises. Economists seem to know more and more about what is less and less important and less and less about what is more and more important. The price of everything is known, but less is known about the value of things. Consider the debates on pricing theo...
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Why we need to start measuring quality of work and how to do it
Written By: Odile MackettDate: 2021-08-16 Views: 1711
Global inequality has become more pressing in recent decades as social unrest has become ever prevalent and writers on the subject more vocal. The predominant focus of the inequality ...
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COVID-19: Dying for Sustainability?
Written By: Franklin Obeng-OdoomDate: 2020-06-29 Views: 2951
The current pandemic might temporarily slow down environmentally destructive economic growth. However, claiming that we are dying for sustainability is dangerous. The global sustainability crisis is not just driven by uneconomic growth but also increasing global inequality and social strat...
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