Learning from COVID: Gender, Corruption, and Small-Scale Cross-Border Trade in East Africa
This GI-ACE project, led by Jacqueline Klopp, explores how COVID-19 has impacted small-scale traders in East Africa and the resiliency…
This GI-ACE project, led by Jacqueline Klopp, explores how COVID-19 has impacted small-scale traders in East Africa and the resiliency…
The Kofi Annan Foundation and the Centre for Multiparty Democracy (CMD-Kenya), with the support of the United Nations Democracy Fund…
The Casamance region of Senegal is the site of Africa’s longest running conflict. But the women of this region see…
The Pandora Papers provide the most comprehensive look yet into the sprawling transnational networks that allow corrupt public officials and economic elite to launder and hide their illicit assets everywhere from the British Virgin Islands to Washington, D.C. The investigation shows that wealthy countries need to do far more to clean up the fiscal paradises they provide for kleptocrats, including by regulating professional enablers such as trust companies in South Dakota in the United States and real estate agents in London. U.S. lawmakers introduced legislation this week to do just that on the national-level. The global scale of the problem that the 11.9 million leaked confidential files from 14 financial service providers implicating public figures from over 90 countries demonstrates there is also the urgent need for a new international institution to hold kleptocrats and their professional enablers accountable.
Popular support for media freedom – a majority view just three years ago – is now in the minority, exceeded…
Overall, Africans say they get less democracy than they want. But in some countries, the perceived supply of democracy is…
Young women’s political engagement lags behind that of their male peers across all the indicators under consideration, although these differences…
Our analysis identifies several factors that shape voluntary civic engagement, from socio- demographic ones such as education and wealth to…
Do Africans actually support elections? Do they regard African elections as free and fair? Do high-quality contests boost the value…
Afrobarometer’s Round 8 surveys took place across 34 countries during 2019-2021, alongside many of these democratic highs and lows, and…