52nd Plenary Session of the African Economic Research Consortium on “Business Environment, Competitiveness and Economic Growth in Africa”

The African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) hosted its 52nd Plenary Session on “Business Environment, Competitiveness and Economic Growth in Africa” on the 29th of June 2020. The sessions were held virtually for researchers, academics, policy makers, non-state actors and economists to discuss the link between business environment, competitiveness, and economic growth in African economies.

Africa's climate crisis, conflict, and migration challenges

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 fuels conflicts and compels people in the developing world northward, where, at least for the time being, conditions are more tolerable. In West Africa, the climate crisis is unfolding in real time and people are moving, fighting for survival, and in need of support.