SOURCES OF INEQUALITY IN SOUTHERN AFRICA
A World Bank report on Inequality in Southern Africa: An Assessment of the Southern African Customs Union examines the process of household income generation to identify the sources of inequality in…
HOW SOUTH AFRICA CAN ACHIEVE ITS CLIMATE GOALS
In our recent review of South Africa’s economy we explore how to raise growth, reduce inequality and unemployment, and bolster the economy’s green credentials and climate resilience. These challenges have been deepened…
SOUTH AFRICA’S mRNA HUB PROGRESS IS FOUNDATION FOR SELF-RELIANCE
For most of 2021, limited global vaccine supply led to huge disparities in COVID-19 vaccine access, leaving billions of people – especially in low- and middle-income countries – unprotected against…
SOUTH AFRICA’S COVID-19 RESPONSE GETS BOOST
The World Bank has approved South Africa’s request for a $750 million development policy loan. This loan will support the Government of South Africa’s efforts to accelerate its COVID-19 response…
OMICRON-FUELLED COVID-19 SURGE IN AFRICA PLATEAUS
After a six-week surge, Africa’s fourth pandemic wave driven primarily by the Omicron variant is flattening, marking the shortest-lived surge to date in the continent where cumulative cases have now…
SCHOOL CLOSURES COULD IMPOVERISH WHOLE GENERATION
This generation of students now risks losing $17 trillion in lifetime earnings in present value, or about 14 per cent of today’s global GDP, as a result of COVID-19 pandemic-related…
FOSSIL FUEL PLANS OUT OF SYNC WITH PARIS AGREEMENT
The 2021 Production Gap Report, by leading research institutes and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), finds that despite increased climate ambitions and net-zero commitments, governments still plan to produce more…