Rethinking African globalisation agenda: Lessons from COVID-19

Ujunwa, Angela Ifeanyi; Ujunwa, Augustine; Okoyeuzu, Chinwe

doi:10.1016/j.resglo.2021.100055

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“…It should not be a shock that the lockdown affected the global economy. The restrictive policies of many countries caused shifts and fluctuations in international trade, finance, and investments and this did not spare Uganda [51]. The emergence of the health crisis, followed by the lockdown, posed cash flow and financial viability challenges, especially to small BTVET services.…”

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Enabling and Impeding Factors in the Provision of Business, Vocational, Entrepreneurship, and Technical Training Education under COVID-19

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Atibuni

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Education systems have been grossly negatively impacted by COVID-19 globally. Education Institutions including universities, colleges, and elementary schools were closed to prevent the disease from spreading. Lockdown and social distancing are some of the disease preventive measures that imposed the greatest challenges on the education system. Different training and learning strategies were adopted to ensure continuity in the provision of Business, Vocational, Entrepreneurship, and Technical Training (BTVET) education across the globe. These strategies include individual learning, online or remote training, and focus group discussion. Several Scholarly studies show that it was not easy for developing countries like some African countries to adopt the online or remote education mechanism while the developed ones took a temporary short period to adjust to the new system. In this article, we used systematic literature review methodology to examine the enabling and impeding factors associated with COVID-19 pandemic that impacted the provision of BTVET education in African the setting right from the onset of the pandemic. We also identify mitigation strategies that should be put in place to abate similar future occurrence. We argue that the lack of strategic foresight in emergency readiness was a major cause of national failures to promptly combat COVID-19 in most African countries including Uganda. BTVET education in Uganda was not spared the bitter effects of the pandemic. However, the pandemic taught a number of hard lessons to the Government of Uganda to strategically outmaneuver the effects of the pandemic. We recommend a number of strategies for outmaneuvering any future effects of pandemics on the provision of BTVET education in Uganda.

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Enabling and Impeding Factors in the Provision of Business, Vocational, Entrepreneurship, and Technical Training Education under COVID-19

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Olema

Atibuni

et al. 2023

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“…The pandemic further demonstrated that some workers in the African continent could not work from home as they are mostly employed in the informal sector. An informal economy with low-skilled workers does not favour virtual work (Ujunwa, Ujunwa, and Okoyeuzu 2021, 2). Moreover, when the pandemic swept through the African continent, workers in the informal sector were likely to feel the effects of the virus.…”

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Diffracting the Global: Exploring the Implementation of WHO’s COVID-19 Protocols in Sub-Saharan Africa

Sebeelo

2023

Insight on Africa

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The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has impacted the world in unprecedented ways. To deal with the virus, countries across the world implemented COVID-19-related protocols that include social distancing, washing hands, wearing masks and restricting movements of people. While the literature on the impact of COVID-19 is emerging, it is still relatively unknown how the virus affected countries in sub-Saharan Africa. This article explores the impact of COVID-19 protocols in sub-Saharan Africa. The article broadly argues that an all-assuming and globalised approach of COVID-19 protocols is antithetical to the sub-Saharan African continent with its vast territories and unique populations. The article highlights that the African continent that houses the world’s poorest populations cannot be adequately served by COVID-19 protocols in similar ways to Western countries. It is further suggested that COVID-19 protocols that reify universalism may need to be adapted and domesticated to fit the African context. The article provides critical insights into the experience of COVID-19 protocols that has several policy implications for future pandemics and disease outbreaks in the African continent.

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“…They concluded that humans play an important role in the balance of Gaia and that humanity needs to accelerate its path to developed goals, and that future studies should follow the social effects of the virus, its trends, and its long-term effects on our society. Ujunwa, A. I., et al (2021) in an article with the title of "Rethinking Africa's Globalization Program: Lessons from COVID-19 Reviewed" examined Africa and the growing globalization debate that is fueling inequality and poverty, and concluded that the promotion of active and global investment in these areas, as well as active dialogue, is mainly in streamlining the globalization agenda. Helps with the epidemic.…”

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Survey the Impacts of Covid19 Vaccine on Economic Condition and Sustainable Development Goals Along with Forecasting Daily New Death Cases in Iran Based on Artificial Intelligence Methods

Farahani

Esfahani²

2022

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The aim of this article is to examine the impacts of Covid19 vaccines on economic condition and sustainable development goals. In other words, we are going to study the economic condition during Covid19. We have studied the economic costs of pandemic, benefits in terms of gross domestic product (GDP), public finances and employment, investment on vaccines around the world, progress and totally the economic impacts of vaccines and the impacts of emerging markets (EM) on achieving sustainable development goals (SDGs), including no poverty, good health and well-being, zero hunger, reduced inequality etc. The importance of emerging economies in reducing the harmful effects of the Corona has also been noted. We have tried to do experimental results and forecast daily new death cases from Feb-2020 to Aug-2021 in Iran using Artificial Neural Network (ANN) and Beetle Antennae Search (BAS) algorithm as a case study with econometric models and regression analysis. The findings show that Covid19 has had devastating economic and health effects on the world, and the vaccine can be very helpful in eliminating these effects specially in long-term. We observed that there is inequality in the distribution of Corona vaccines in rich countries compared to poor which EM can decrease the gap between them. The results show that both models (i.e., Artificial intelligence (AI) and econometric models) almost have the same results but AI optimization models can robust the model and prediction. The main contribution of this article is that we have surveyed the impacts of vaccination from socio-economic viewpoint not just report some facts and truth. We have surveyed the impacts of vaccines on sustainable development goals and the role of EM in achieving SDGs. In addition to using the theoretical framework, we have also used quantitative and empirical results that have rarely been seen in other articles. JEL Codes: E0, F0, I0

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Rethinking African globalisation agenda: Lessons from COVID-19

Cited by 11 publications

References 21 publications

Enabling and Impeding Factors in the Provision of Business, Vocational, Entrepreneurship, and Technical Training Education under COVID-19

Enabling and Impeding Factors in the Provision of Business, Vocational, Entrepreneurship, and Technical Training Education under COVID-19

Diffracting the Global: Exploring the Implementation of WHO’s COVID-19 Protocols in Sub-Saharan Africa

Survey the Impacts of Covid19 Vaccine on Economic Condition and Sustainable Development Goals Along with Forecasting Daily New Death Cases in Iran Based on Artificial Intelligence Methods

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