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Carlo Azzarri

Carlo Azzarri is a Senior Research Fellow in the Innovation Policy and Scaling Unit. His work focuses on the relationships among poverty, nutrition, food security, agriculture, the environment, production, and migration—analyzed at both micro and macroeconomic levels, primarily using quantitative methods.

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Nigeria can’t afford another lockdown – Buhari (Herald)

October 30, 2020


Herald (Nigeria) posted an article reporting on President Muhammadu Buhari’s request that Nigerians abide strictly by COVID-19 protocols as the country cannot afford a fresh lockdown. The total lockdown that lasted five weeks caused Nigeria’s GDP to suffer a 34.1 percent loss, amounting to USD 16 billion, with two-thirds of the losses coming from the services sector, according to IFPRI’s COVID-19 lockdowns are imposing substantial economic costs on countries in Africa

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