Policy briefs

Traps on the Road to High Income

The “middle-income trap” has become a broad designation trying to capture the many cases of developing countries that succeeded in evolving from low...

Seven Predictions About the World Without the WTO

Imagining world trade without the WTO/GATT system. It was after all, the case through recorded history until around 1950. But today’s economies are...

South Africa’s Economic Slowdown and Its Policy Options

South Africa has not been exempted from the recent economic turmoil affecting several emerging countries. As the first second-largest economy on the...

The Outbreak of Peace and Symbolism of the Ethiopian-Eritrean Border

A red carpet was placed to welcome Eritreans to Ethiopia as two land border crossings between the countries were reopened in September, in Zalambessa...

African Union stance on the Sahara issue: incipient change

Morocco's protracted absence from the Pan-African Institution allowed its’ adversaries to influence the AU into adopting one-sided decisions...

La position de l’Union africaine sur la question du Sahara : le début d’un changement

L’absence prolongée du Maroc de l’Institution panafricaine a permis aux adversaires du Royaume de faire adopter, par l’UA, des décisions à sens...

L’évaluation d’impact pour l’efficacité des politiques de développement en Afrique

L’évaluation d’impact des projets et programmes de développement est un exercice qui est de plus en plus adopté dans les pays en développement...

The ICC and the African Union: “Engaging African Youth in International Justice”

On February 1, 2019, the International Criminal Court (ICC) released Laurent Gbagbo, the former president of Côte d’Ivoire, and the first head of...

Ahead of the Senegalese Presidential Elections : Taking the Temperature from Twitter Mining

As Senegalese population are due to join the polls on Sunday February 24th, 2019 to elect their next president, several voters are turning to social...