Research

Content type

Chairs

Trade Topics

Year

Digital developments and employment: Understanding trends in Africa

3 February 2025

research. It emphasizes that employment is central to inclusive growth, ...

Coronavirus Pandemic: A New Path To Rethinking Macroprudential Policy In Africa

21 October 2024

About two years ago, the world was hit by a major unexpected shock: the COVID-19 pandemic. While this health and economic crisis has had, and continues to have, a severe impact on European citizens and businesses, the euro area banking sector has so far w ...

COVID-19 shock on supply chains: evidence from a developing country

28 May 2024

In this paper we evaluate the impact of COVID-19 lockdown policies on Tunisia’s supply chains. We estimate a Poisson Pseudo Maximum Likelihood model using data on bilateral imports for intermediate, capital, and final goods for the years 2019 and 2020 at ...

Le financement de la transition écologique en Afrique francophone: le rôle de la politique monétaire

4 May 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic and the slowdown in the global economy are hitting hard many African countries, especially those already struggling with the negative effects of climate change. In this context, transitioning towards a more ecologically sustainable e ...

La riposte économique contre la Covid-19 en Afrique francophone: l'«espace politique en question»

4 May 2023

Africa, while less impacted than other regions of the world, is still facing disastrous consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic. Unfortunately, African countries, especially those in French-speaking Africa, have provided less support to their economies duri ...

Africa's digital future: From theory to action

20 November 2021

attracted much research interest around the world. But few publications (until ... of whom are members of the extended research network of the NWU, the WTO Chairs Programme and the TRADE research entity Author(s): Wilma Viviers, ...

Exploring export opportunities of Tunisia in Africa

26 August 2021

research project under the auspices of the ‘South Africa-Tunisia Science and Technology Collaboration’ initiative. The research project is aimed ... exporters. Following an extensive bidding process, a research consortium ...

Improving Employment Prospects for Africa’s Rural Youth: Harnessing the Potential of the Agriculture Sector for Long-Term Job Creation

26 August 2021

Rural youth are an important yet underutilised resource for agricultural growth and economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). In rural areas, the prevalence of vulnerable, low-quality jobs constitutes the main labour market challenge. The Internat ...

Africa's climate crisis, conflict, and migration challenges

9 July 2021

Links between the climate crisis and migration are intensifying in West Africa, where many people work in sectors vulnerable to climate-related extremes of weather and sea level rise. As climate change intensifies, it is threatening livelihoods, which fue ...