As the world moves beyond the initial shock of Covid-19 and adapts to a wholly different working environment, the pandemic’s most important impact in Africa is escalating poverty, say Anda David and Murray Leibbrandt.
Anda David and Murray LeibbrandtAs the world moves beyond the initial shock of Covid-19 and adapts to a wholly different working environment, the pandemic’s most important impact in Africa is escalating poverty, say High profile international discussions on changing global inequality pay far too little attention to African inequality dynamics despite the growing importance of these African issues in the international conversation.
This raises the key question: what can be said about African inequality to promote better analysis and policymaking and address inequality on the continent? As the European Union - African Union Summit unfolded this week, we extracted the research conducted in the context of the EU-AFD Research Facility on Inequalities in an attempt to answer this question.
Other than fossil-dependent countries such as South Africa where reducing carbon emissions will be a factor in its climate change approach, Africa must predominantly deal with how climate change issues, like extreme weather patterns and rising sea levels, affect their countries and economies. The urgency to rethink economic growth in light of climate change must be at the heart of economic recovery.
We cannot view Africa as a uniform space, as that runs the risk of not paying attention to an individual country’s details and requirements. Contributions to addressing inequality must empower at a local level and incorporate this perspective into prevailing policy discussions for each nation.
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