https://hdl.handle.net/10419/122092 2026-10-19T10:25:01Z https://hdl.handle.net/10419/268604 Title: Without a radical rethinking of the role of data, the SDGs will fail to "leave no one behind" Authors: Jütting, Johannes P.; Ramirez-Hughes, Sasha Abstract: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development calls on countries to report on an extensive set of indicators, aimed at ensuring that no one is 'left behind', yet today, nearly halfway towards the end, most countries are struggling to produce the required data. The COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, conflict and instability are setting back SDG progress while also making it more difficult for national statistical offices to produce data. Johannes Jütting & Sasha Ramirez-Hughes suggest in their Policy Brief to use new tools and platforms to better match supply and demand, new data sources and citizen-generated data along with the better usage of existing data that could deliver substantial benefits. 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10419/268264 Title: Potential economic benefits of the African continental free trade area for Africa and the EU Authors: Hinz, Julian; Chowdhry, Sonali; Jacobs, Anna; Thiele, Rainer Abstract: Despite some growth, intra-African trade activity remains at low levels and falls far behind the levels of internal trade observed in more integrated regions like the EU. The European continent remains a major trading partner, but its share in total African exports and imports has decreased from nearly 50% to 35% between 2000 and 2020. Our simulations suggest that implementing the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement can lead to substantial welfare gains in Africa, but only if tariff reductions are accompanied by a significant lowering of Non-Tariff-Barriers (NTBs). If NTBs are reduced on a multilateral basis, the EU's declining trade share with Africa might also be reversed. European governments and EU institutions should therefore have an incentive to provide technical and financial assistance - possibly within the framework of the existing WTO-led aid-for-trade initiative - to help AfCFTA economies lowering NTBs on a multilateral basis. 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10419/266437 Title: China's aid exports to Africa and the COVID-19 pandemic: How much? Where? What? Authors: Fuchs, Andreas; Kaplan, Lennart; Kis-Katos, Krisztina; Schmidt, Sebastian S.; Turbanisch, Felix; Wang, Feicheng Abstract: China's aid to Africa receives significant attention from policymakers, development practitioners, and observers worldwide. This is even more the case since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, given China's importance as a donor of vaccines, ventilators, face masks, disinfectants, and other medical supplies. This PEGNet Policy Brief describes the general patterns of Beijing's so-called 'mask diplomacy' and 'vaccine diplomacy' compared to China's pre-pandemic aid exports. First, we find that China's average monthly aid exports to Africa did not increase after the pandemic outbreak (in contrast to those to the rest of the world). Second, we observe a shift towards medical aid at the expense of other aid goods after the pandemic outbreak. Chinese non-medical aid to Africa was 26.6% below its prepandemic (2017-2019) level. Third, we find significant shifts in the cross-country distribution of Chinese aid exports, creating both so-called aid darlings (e.g., Ethiopia) and aid orphans (e.g., Côte d'Ivoire) across the African continent. 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10419/243117 Title: Can the expansion of SMEs along Africa's food supply chains improve food and nutrition security? Authors: O. Liverpool-Tasie, Lenis Saweda; Reardon, Thomas Anthony Abstract: In the last three decades, agrifood value chains (AVCs) have expanded and transformed in developing regions. AVC transformation across Africa has created huge markets for farmers, along with employment in various supply chain segments, including food processing, wholesaling, and logistics provision. Thereby, domestic food supply chains dominate Africa's food supply and SMEs move most of this food. Understanding these SMEs and their behaviours is important to be able to design policies and programs with positive impacts on food and nutrition security. This raises the question on whether the expansion of SMEs along Africa's food supply chains can improve food and nutrition security. 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z