Richard Goode, Author at Good Governance Africa

Richard Goode

Richard Goode is an economist with four decades of experience working on the political economy of development in Africa. His research interests include employment, inequality, industrial structure, problem solving for ecologically sustainable economic growth and the exercise of political power within social organisations.

African authoritarianism: COVID rules should be regularly reviewed, not normalised

by Richard Goode and Anna Trapido | Sep 29, 2021

On 11 March, 2020, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization (WHO) formally designated COVID-19 as a global pandemic. Citing “alarming levels of spread and severity”, he called on governments to take “urgent and aggressive...