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AfricaGrowth Agenda

The Africagrowth Agenda is a quarterly journal which publishes high quality articles covering development issues in Africa. Special focus of the journal is on:
- Investment Climate in Africa
- Intra-African trade
- African capital markets
- Development finance/economics
- Issues surrounding African Development Institutions
- Best practice articles
Publisher | AfricaGrowth Institute |
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Frequency | Quarterly |
Coverage | Mar / May 2007 - current |
Accreditation(s) |
The International Bibliography of Social Sciences (IBSS) |
Language | English |
Journal Status | Active |
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COVID-19 wedges bank’s 2020 fiscal and curbs would-be new investment
Covid-19 not only denotes a global unrestricted wellbeing disaster but has turn out to be a global trade and industry catastrophe that could exceed the overall financial crisis of 2008-09. Right now, most countries are tirelessly designing mitigation measures to try to edge the spread of the virus and save economy. Whatsoever measures to be embraced they will come at a cost. Since Covid-19 is strictly a global shock, worldwide synchronization is critical in containment and mitigation eforts. Unquestionably, with no cure found yet, the present epidemics will suggestively have bearing on global GDP growth for 2020, one on investment downside if containment strategies are lengthened and two, banks' earnings to drop in the second quarter and thus negatively impacting the profitability of banks and hence taxes to the governments. Devising mechanisms to grapple with this pandemic, while following to expert's guidance is essential to return to business normality. Covid-19 like any other virus known illness is going to take time to be contained; henceforth learning on how to cope with it in our daily routine is necessary to kick start our economies undertakings. Based on topical literature, this short paper scans and analyse on-going discourse from past epidemics and lessons learnt to help draw an analysis on that would help to assessing short-term ifscal and monetary impact of Covid-19 on general growth amidst challenging times that most banks, governments and heads of states faces to cope with this pandemic.
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Alternative financing structure for greening South African cities
The National Development Plan compels all cities to create sustainable environments for their communities (RSA, 2012: 37-38). However, the challenge throughout South African cities is the lack of f inances needed to provide the green infrastructure required to drive the sustainable cities agenda, while cleaning up the environment (SANC, 2016: 198-199). Therefore, this paper follows a qualitative, literature-based approach to discuss alternative financing models which include private investors as well. Obviously, as per literature a self-funding municipality could result in cost savings and/or the attraction of outside investment which might be a good idea for South Africa considering its current economic status. However, it seems that in the current situation South African municipalities do not have the finance to kick-start such a process. Therefore, based on satisfactory results from a collaboration between Singapore and China on the transition of greening its cities since 2009, an alternative financing structure for greening South African cities is proposed. This may serve as a guiding tool for policy makers on greening South African cities.
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COVID-19 and its economic Impact on the south economy
Does COVID-19 have an impact on South Africa's economy? The impact of COVID-19 on the economy is appalling and cannot be overlooked. Noteworthy, is that the COVID-19 pandemic has deplorable eefcts to governments, investors, financial markets and consumers. There are many effects of the COVID-19, including but not limited to, the strain on the government's expenditure, an uncertainty in financial markets, panic buying, depreciation of the local currency and leading South Africa into a depression. This study presents recommendations that can be used by the government to counter the adverse effects attached to COVID-19. This study therefore suggests that the government reduce the borrowing rate to increase the consumption level and economic growth. In addition, the fiscal authorities should fund all key economic sectors to avoid unemployment and a stagnant economic growth.
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COVID-19 : challenges and opportunities for Africa
The corona virus shocked everyone, from private institutions to govern ments. It presented a dual crisis which had not been experienced before, a health crisis and an economic one. The effects of the former would likely be signicficant in the short term while the effects of the latter are likely to be felt in the long term. The country and regional idiosyncrasies implies that some regions will experience a much greater shock than others. Whilst COVID19 is a global pandemic, this article discusses the challenges and opportunities that this crisis presents for Africa. On one hand, the crisis amplifies already existing Africa's weaknesses characterised by uncoordinated and dysfunctional institutions.These manifest themselves in compounded socio-economic challenges such as war, political instability, poor trade channels and systems, poverty, poor health facilities among others. On the other hand, the pandemic presents an opportunity for the continent to re-model itself and take advantage of convergence eefcts thereby 'catching-up' with emerging and advanced economies. This paper provides an overview of how Africans can transform the COVID-19 crisis into an opportunity through a coordinated approach. The lesson is that Africans must learn to work as teams or perish as individuals.
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© Publisher: AfricaGrowth Institute

© Publisher: AfricaGrowth Institute