It has become abundantly clear that there needs to be a major mind-set shift in the way Eswatini’s private sector conducts business, if the country is to achieve economic growth levels above 5 per cent. This is the message put across by Swaziland Economic Policy…

To solve the many challenges facing the Kingdom of Eswatini, effective collaboration between researchers from different disciplines is necessary to maximise the potential benefits of  interdisciplinary science for integrative solutions. This is one of the key reasons the Swaziland Economic Policy Analysis and Research Centre (SEPARC)…

With the world’s largest South-South PhD and post-doctoral research fellowship programme, The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) helps early-career researchers to gain education and experience at top global science institutions. TWAS currently has over 370 PhD fellowships with 9 partners in five countries, and over…

Noussayma Njeim – who is concurrently studying for a Masters in Rural Development at the Universities of UGent in Belgium and Humboldt University in Berlin, as well as a Masters in Agricultural Economics at the University of Arkansas in the USA – has found a…

African leaders have been called upon to provide visionary and transformative leadership if African countries want to successfully tackle youth unemployment issues on the continent. Youth unemployment and what African countries need to do to tackle it was the priority issue discussed at the 5th…

With the unemployment rate in Swaziland at an alarming high, it is no surprise that the public and private sectors’ priority areas for research is in sectors of the economy that can fast-track growth and development using more sustainable and innovative methods. These are some…

By James McGann, Landry Signé, and Monde Muyangwa African think tanks are under serious threat: Many of the credible think tanks have disappeared, and the survival of the remaining ones is at stake. In fact, at the first Africa Think Tank Summit in 2014 in South Africa, Dr. Frannie…

Does the technical and vocational education and training (TVET) system in Swaziland produce the much-needed technical skills for increasing productivity in the ICT, electrical engineering, and automotive industries of the economy? This is the focal question a study recently conducted by the Swaziland Economic Policy Analysis…

While research shows that crop yields from rain-fed agriculture could fall by up to 50% by 2020, government is still adamant that genetically modified crops remain banned in Swaziland despite scientific evidence that GMO technology could potentially enhance agricultural production. Earlier this year, Minister of…

The Swaziland Economic Policy Analysis and Research Centre (SEPARC) partnered with Clement Dlamini, a lecturer at the University of Swaziland (UNISWA) and contributing author, to launch a book on how small grants are helping to solve some of the world’s biggest problems. The book titled…