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    In Praise of African Technocrats

    By Stefan Dercon
    June 6, 2022
    Bargaining for progress? How elites can affect change towards development in Africa
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    African Creator Economy: A Socioeconomic Renaissance of the Continent?

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    The evolution of Africa's work models and their implication for sustained growth
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    Taking Industrial Policy Seriously in Sudan

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    Resolving Nigeria’s Population-Productivity-Insecurity Problem

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    Nigeria's demographic-security nexus
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    Development Partnerships or Transactional Politics? An Insight into the Continent’s Struggle for Economic Transformation

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    May 12, 2021
    Book Review: Know the Beginning Well
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    “Plus Ça Change, Plus C’est la Même Chose”: Review of K.Y. Amoako’s Know the Beginning Well

    By Shantayanan Devarajan
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    Book Review Debate: Know the Beginning Well
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    Putting Economic Policies into Practice: the K.Y. Guide

    By Nick Westcott
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    Exhumed Bodies: Reburials and Cultural Resistance in Covid Times

    By Leslie Bank Aneza Madini
    February 10, 2021
    Politics of burial during Covid-19 in South Africa
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    From Desperation to Dignity: Making Sense of “Hustling” in Neoliberal Nairobi

    By Julie Zollmann
    January 27, 2021
    A review of IAI Africa journal latest "Hustle" issue
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    GERD,* The Tree which Hides the Forest: On Water Inequalities in Egypt

    By El Nour Saker
    January 14, 2021
    GERD Series: water inequalities in Egypt
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