“It is the willingness of ordinary people across Africa to step up and do the right things—from social distancing to new sanitary habits—that has kept the virus contained.” The first case of COVID-19 in Africa was confirmed in Egypt on...

In Akan, the most widely spoken language in Ghana, daakye means future. It is an apt name, therefore, for the Daakye bond program, which invests in Ghana’s future leaders through securitizing future government tax flows. Established in 2020...

It’s midday, and the students of Nyamadzele Primary School in Nsanje, a district in the southern region of Malawi, are moving around the school premises on their lunch break. The temperature is 40°C, but most of the children do not seem to...

Registration is Open for $2 Million AgriTech Prize Los Angeles and Johannesburg - April 28, 2021 - The Milken Institute and the Motsepe Foundation today launched the Milken-Motsepe Innovation Prize program, a multi-year initiative to focus...

Policies meant to control the spread of COVID-19 have had dramatic negative impacts on Zimbabweans involved in cross-border trade, including in Mutare, a city east of Harare on the border with Mozambique. On March 27, Zimbabwean President...

Lockdown restrictions to mitigate COVID-19 had severe impacts for farmers in Nigeria, delaying planting and increasing the costs of inputs. Abiodun Jamiu reports from Kwara State. First the lockdown, then the floods Salaudeen Abdulrasaq...

“Access is only the first challenge that will need to be addressed for widespread vaccination against COVID-19 in Nigeria. There are also concerns about the state of cold chain infrastructure and perceptions of the safety and effectiveness...

“It is worth considering what it would take for any of these strategies to work, and more crucially, whether the current pandemic and the global after-shock affect how they might be implemented.” Professor Dani Rodrik has been ahead of the...

“We look at mobility data from Google to see how effective four East African countries have been in reducing social interaction in line with the kind of suppression strategies health experts were recommending at the start of the COVID-19...

In response to COVID-19, African central banks have deployed a variety of monetary policy tools, including lowering policy rates, reducing capital requirements, providing various liquidity support measures to the banking sector, allowing...