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More than half of Kenya’s urban population lives in slums, in extremely poor quality housing with little access to basic amenities. Yet, comparatively, they pay high rentals. Debabrata Talukdar explains that, because there’s a huge demand for low-cost housing, tenants are paying a high price for these bad conditions.
This week South Africa’s new Finance Minister Tito Mboweni will be setting out the government’s fiscal policy and projections for the next three years. He’s got a tough job ahead of him given the parlous state of the country’s economy. Seán Mfundza Muller unpacks the issues he’ll need to focus on.
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About 56% of Kenya’s urban population currently lives in a slum.
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Debabrata Talukdar, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
The rental housing market in Nairobi’s informal settlements offers its tenant households a perverse market outcome of higher prices for lower quality products
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South Africa’s Finance Minister Tito Mboweni must answer several big questions about the country’s economic plans.
Sebastiao Moreira
Seán Mfundza Muller, University of Johannesburg
The damage done during the preceding decade will have a negative effect on South Africa's public finances and the economy for some time to come.
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Politics + Society
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Anthea Garman, Rhodes University
South African editors and journalists failed in their ethical contract with society.
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Herman Wasserman, University of Cape Town
South Africans have a right to know why the lapses at Sunday Times occurred and why those that spoke up against them were silenced.
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Business + Economy
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Carin Runciman, University of Johannesburg
Proposed changes to South African labour laws threaten to set back workers rights.
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Robert Rotberg, Harvard University
Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration is struggling to overcome the national economic destruction wreaked on Zimbabwe over two decades under Robert Mugabe.
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From our international editions
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Terrence Guay, Pennsylvania State University
Trump claimed that 'we would be punishing ourselves' by using US arms sales to Saudi Arabia as a bargaining chip over the disappearance of Khashoggi. A look at the arms trade shows why he's wrong.
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Hannah Mumby, University of Cambridge
A movement built on inequality can also perpetuate that same inequality.
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Gabriela-Alina Sauciuc, Lund University; Tomas Persson, Lund University
An Ig Nobel Prize-winning study suggests we need to rethink why imitation evolved.
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