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“We were stuck”

by Antoinette van der Merwe, 22 October 2020
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During the lockdown Antoinette van der Merwe was stuck in South Africa. While she was there, she started a new research project to find out how poor families are coping with the current corona crisis.

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About the author

Antoinette van der Merwe is doing a Ph.D under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Isabel Günther, at the Institute of Science, Technology and Policy (ISTP) and the Development Economics Group (DEC). Antoinette’s PhD focuses on various ways to create cleaner and safer gold supply chains, such as increasing the amount recycled gold in an urban mining project in Switzerland and working with artisanal miners in Burkina Faso to increase the use of personal protective gear.

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