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Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…
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January 25, 2018
Nigeria
Nigeria’s Formal Economy Looking Up
Hostages to fortune are international oil prices, which are largely determined by forces over which Nigeria has little control. While Nigeria ostensibly has more control over security in the oil patch, there is an ongoing, low-level insurgency that has been in effect for years.
April 7, 2014
China
Nigeria is Officially “Africa’s Largest Economy”
On April 6, Nigeria’s National Bureau of Statistics announced that after “rebasing,” Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) almost doubled to U.S. $509.9 billion. That figure is dramatically larger t…
October 31, 2013
Sub-Saharan Africa
Afrobarometer Poll Questions the "Africa Rising" Narrative
Afrobarometer is a research project coordinated by institutions in African countries and with partners in thirty-one countries. It recently conducted a survey of public opinion across thirty-four Afr…
May 17, 2013
South Africa
South Africa’s Economic Fault Lines
South Africa in the post-apartheid period has registered steady growth, but mounting problems over inequality threaten the continent’s economic engine.
