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One year on: Zambian economy during COVID-19

Twivwe Siwale

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Downtown Lusaka showing the Findeco Building from the South end round-a-bout. Photo credit: Matthew Grolinek via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Data for decision making in the COVID-19 crisis

Zeeshan Abedin, Emanuele Brancati, Victoria Delbridge, Sebastian Kriticos, Hina Shaikh

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CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA - SEPTEMBER 24: A general view during Minister of Transport, Fikile Mbalula inspection of Cape Town International Airport on September 24, 2020 in Cape Town, South Africa. Photo credit: Gallo Images / Contributor / Gallo Images via Getty Images.
COVID-19 and Cities
Property taxes in a pandemic world

Astrid Haas, Priya Manwaring, Jennifer Musisi

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Kampala cityscape. Photo credit: Yannick Tylle / Corbis Documentary via Getty Images.
Why COVID-19 offers the perfect opportunity to remove fuel subsidies

Joevas Asare

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The Valero Oil Refinery at San Nicolas in southeast Aruba. Photo credit: David Stanley, CC BY 2.0.
The dangers of not knowing enough about COVID-19’s impact on women in Pakistan

Osman Siddiqi, Ayesha Shahid

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Christian women wait for a free food distribution outside a church after the government eased a nationwide lockdown imposed as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus, in Rawalpindi on May 16, 2020. Photo credit: Farooq Naeem / AFP via Getty Images.
COVID-19 and Cities
In defence of density

Shlomo Angel, Patrick Lamson-Hall, Oliver Harman, Shahrukh Wani

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COVID-19 in Tanzania: Is business as usual response enough?

Veronica Masubo

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Men sitting in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Photo credit: Imke.sta via Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ramping up early detection of COVID-19 with limited resources: The role of pool testing

James Dzansi

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COVID-19 and Cities
Empowering our cities to fight the pandemics of the future

Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, Paul Collier, Edward L. Glaeser, Astrid Haas, Craig Kesson, Jonathan Leape, Jennifer Musisi, Naison Mutizwa-Mangiza, Mohammed Adjei Sowah, Tony Venables

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Lagos State Officials hand out the food relief bags to people of the Agbado and Oke-Odo LCDA community in Lagos on April 1, 2020. - More than 20 million Nigerians on March 30, 2020, went into lockdown in sub-Saharan Africa's biggest city Lagos and the capital Abuja, as the continent struggles to curb the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. Photo credit: Benson IBEABUCHI / AFP via Getty Images.
Lockdown without borders: Regional integration and the AfCFTA can drive Africa’s COVID-19 response

Nick Wilkinson

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Mombasa port in Kenya. Photo credit: USAID East Africa Trade Hub / USAID in Africa, United States Government Work.
World Environment Day: Championing clean energy post COVID-19

Joevas Asare

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Surprisingly Jordan has a large number of windturbines located in the higher parts of the country. Photo credits: Nick Brundle Photography / Moment via Getty Images.
Tourism and COVID-19 in Zambia

Rayner Tabetando

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An elderly African woman and a young man wearing medical masks and chatting. Photo credit: Wirestock / iStock / Getty Images Plus via Getty Images.
The shadow pandemic: Gender-based violence and COVID-19

Jessica Caroline Young, Camron Aref-Adib

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Smart containment and social protection: Lessons from Kenya’s COVID-19 fight

Sarah Logan

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Mozambique’s response to COVID-19: Challenges and questions

Miguel Angel Jimenez, Egas Daniel

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Photo credit: Henitsoa Rafalia / World Bank Photo Collection, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.
Behavioural economics of lockdown compliance: In search of lost time and well-behaved neighbours

Oliver Harman, Victoria Delbridge

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COVID-19 underscores need to overhaul social policies across Africa

Nidhi Parekh

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Photo credit: Martin Harvey / Photodisc via Getty Images.
Ghana lifts the lockdown: Has the government reneged on its commitment to contain COVID-19 at all costs?

James Dzansi

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An elderly African woman and a young man wearing medical masks and chatting. Photo credit: Wirestock / iStock / Getty Images Plus via Getty Images.
COVID-19 and the impact on women

Laura Sili

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A midwife at work in a community health center in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Photo credits: Dominic Chavez/World Bank (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Engaging with mosque imams for effective responses to COVID-19

Katherine Vyborny, Syed Uzair Junaid, Lala Rukh Khan

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