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Academic Performance in comparative perspective

Pelizzo, Riccardo (African Politics and Policy Newsletter, 2019-08-05)

East Africa has traditionally had good universities. The data collected and made available by Scimago allow one to assess how good East African universities are in comparative perspective....
African Development at Risk

Pelizzo, Riccardo (African Politics and Policy Newsletter, 2019-07-30)

In 2018 Abel Kinyondo, Zim Nwokora and I co-authored a paper entitled ‘Development in Africa’ which was eventually published by World Affairs. In the article we claimed that the development progress that countries in ...
Africa’s wealth

Pelizzo, Riccardo (African Politics and Policy Newsletter, 2019-10-22)

For the past few years, we have summarized the key findings of the Africa Wealth Report produced by the AfrAsia bank....
Corruption Perception Index 2019

Pelizzo, Riccardo (African Politics and Policy Newsletter, 2020-01-25)

Transparency International has just released the Corruption Perception Index for 2019. One of the notable changes revealed by Transparency international’s data is that Kazakhstan improved its score by 3 points -from 31 to ...
How do African millionaires spend their money?

Pelizzo, Riccardo (African Politics and Policy Newsletter, 2019-04-24)

As we noted in a previous post, Africa has 145000 High Net Worth Individuals whose assets are worth about 800 billion. Overall Africans’ net worth is estimated in 2.2 trillion US dollars. The number of HNWIs has increased ...
Korean lesson for Africa

Pelizzo, Riccardo (African Politics and Policy Newsletter, 2019-07-31)

The South Korean case has extensively been investigated by political economists. It was one of the best known cases of a developmental state -a state that, by making the right choices, is able to create the conditions for ...
News from Africa: the good, the bad and the ugly

Pelizzo, Riccardo (African Politics and Policy Newsletter, 2019-08-02)

Some news are good and possibily very good: in Mozambique, the government and RENAMO have signed a peace deal, while, according to President Buhari, 5 million Nigerians have been lifted out of poverty in the past three years...
New year, old problems

Pelizzo, Riccardo (African Politics and Policy Newsletter, 2020-01-22)
Problems won’t end in January

Pelizzo, Riccardo (African Politics and Policy Newsletter, 2020-01-29)
The state of Africa: the universities

Pelizzo, Riccardo (African Politics and Policy Newsletter, 2020-01-27)

A few days ago a Tanzanian friend noted, in an email, that “Africa is going backwards socially, politically and most importantly economically”. Few hours later, a friend from Togo remarked that “the situation is worsening ...