Socioeconomic Shocks and Africa?s Development Agenda : Lessons and Policy Directions in a Post-covid-19 Era

This book investigates how African countries respond to socioeconomic shocks, drawing out lessons to help to inform future policy and development efforts.

The challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic affected all sectors of the economy, exposing substantial structural weaknesses and complexities in supply chains and logistics across the African continent. This book examines the disruptive impact of the pandemic across Africa. However, it also goes beyond the current crisis to investigate how socioeconomic pressures in general impact commodity prices, national budgeting processes, food, business, energy sectors, education, health, and sanitation. Overall, the book presents evidence-based solutions and policy recommendations to enable readers to improve resilience and responses to future crises.

The insights provided by this book will be of interest to policymakers and development agencies, as well as to researchers of global development, politics, economics, business, and African studies.

Evans Osabuohien is Professor and Head of the Department of Economics and Development Studies, Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria. He is the Pioneer Chair at the Centre for Economic Policy and Development Research (CEPDeR) as well as the Pioneer Chair for Regional Centre of Expertise, Ogun State (RCE Ogun). Also, he is a Visiting Professor at Witten/Herdecke University, Germany, and Visiting Scholar at Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo, Mozambique. He is a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and Swedish Institute, among others. In 2020, he was recognised as one of the six Youngest Professors in Nigeria. He has published five books and over 185 scholarly articles.

Gbadebo Odularu is affiliated with Virginia Military Institute (VMI), Bay Atlantic University (BAU), Socio-economic Research Applications and Projects (SERAP), and Nexford University (NXU), United States. He holds a PhD degree from the University of Sunderland, UK. He was a regional policies and markets analyst at the continental Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) based in Accra, Ghana, and a visiting scholar at the Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), University of Oxford, UK.

Daniel Ufua is Lecturer at the Department of Business Management and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Research and Policy Development (CEPDeR), at Covenant University, Nigeria. He holds a PhD in Management from the University of Hull, UK. His research interest is on the application of systems thinking and management science where he has published several research papers.

Romanus Osabohien is Lecturer at the Department of Economics and Development Studies and a Research Fellow, Centre for Economic Policy and Development Research (CEPDeR), Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria. He holds a PhD in Economics with research focus on Social Security, Food Security, Agricultural and Development Economics. He is a reviewer and editorial board member for well-rated journals including Heliyon Business and Economics (Elsevier).