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Lailajs (Nigeria) published a blog post on intimate partner violence in Nigeria. The author wonders why the Violence Against Persons Prohibition (VAPP) Act has not been passed in every state in Nigeria. The author uses research from IFPRI on IPV in Bangladesh to demonstrate how IPV can be controlled and lowered. 

LSE Blog published a blog post about the new Academic Collaboration research project, ‘Can Social Protection Empower Women? Patriarchy, Economic Agency and Redistribution Policies in Egypt’ which is primarily a methodological endeavor. Context is key to social knowledge, yet theories and methods are often summoned from location to location, from one time to another, and used to […]

This Day (Nigeria) published an article that discussed the adverse effects of COVID-19 on businesses. The biggest risk to businesses post-COVID was a failure to meet revenue expectations, among others. A report from IFPRI showed that during the lockdown periods, Nigeria’s GDP dropped by 34.1 percent, amounting to $16 billion. 

Blueprint (Nigeria) published an article stating that the Covid-19 pandemic is certainly a global challenge that negatively affects productivity and retards economic growth. This is in addition to the growing fatality, which the world counts every day. In Nigeria, the situation is worst. Our system is so defective and allows some people to take advantage of every […]

E15.cz (Czechoslovakia) published an article on China’s recent growth while other nations are experiencing loss during the COVID-19 crisis. The growth of the Asian power was driven mainly by government investment in infrastructure and efforts to encourage industry. The corona crisis mainly affected around 300 million workers migrating from rural to urban areas. The measures have paralyzed […]

The Nation (Malawi) published an article stating that the Ministry of Trade says it plans to lift the maize export ban to allow traders to sell the staple grain to neighboring countries. IFPRI found that on average, maize price is at K205 per kilogramme (kg), Mhango said one kg is being sold at K160 as the highest retail price […]

Times Malawi published an article that discussed the January Monthly Maize Market Report from IFPRI-Malawi. The report showed that Prices of maize, Malawi’s staple commodity, went down by an average of 4 percent during the last weeks of January, defying lean season odds where, traditionally, they skyrocket due to scarcity. In a separate interview, Farmers Union of Malawi President Fryton Njolomole said the […]

Reliefweb published key highlights regarding Malawi’s response and status of the agriculture sector: 1) In the month of December 2020, the proportion of households relying on food purchase as the main source of food increased; 2) Nearly 20.0 percent of the households that owned livestock reported some suspected livestock diseases slightly down; 3) Nearly 2.3 percent of the […]

Deutsche Welle published an article on the latest news in Myanmar. The protests have not yet escalated, but the situation in Myanmar is extremely tense. The Tatmadaw, as the military is called in Myanmar, has so far mainly disrupted communication in order to make it difficult to organize protests. The pandemic has already caused serious damage to […]

New York Times published an opinion piece stating that more than politics, Myanmar needs a fresh path to democracy. Free and fair elections (and respect for the results) are essential. But also essential is the transformation of a society shaped by decades of dictatorship, international isolation, brutal armed conflict, racial and religious discrimination, extreme poverty, […]