Think Tank Coverage Map
The think tank landscape covering Africa-Europe relations is well-established - but how much work actually speaks to the needs of business? Meridian17 is building a systematic map of what leading policy think tanks publish, and how their output engages with the themes that we believe matter most for Africa-Europe trade, investment, and economic partnership.
We are starting with six institutions: ECDPM, ODI, SAIIA, TIPS, the Policy Center for the New South, and ACET. Each has been selected for its relevance to Africa-Europe relations and the depth of its published research. Our aim is to grow this into a comprehensive index across the field.
Our intention is for this to be practical in nature. Understanding where the think tank community focuses and where not helps us identify the unmet analytical needs of businesses operating across the Africa-Europe corridor. Where the research is thin, the policy guidance tends to be thin too. Our map helps to highlight any gaps, so that Meridian17 and others can work to fill it.
The analysis is automated and should be read as indicative. Click any cell to see the underlying publications and the text that triggered the match.
Methodology. A publication is counted as substantively engaging with a theme if 2 or more of its text chunks score 0.7+ cosine similarity to the theme description (full-text semantic embeddings via nomic-embed-text). Cell values are the share of each institution's publication corpus that meets this threshold for the given theme.
Underlying publications
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Analysis generated by Meridian17 from full-text semantic embeddings of publications from ECDPM, ODI, SAIIA, TIPS, Policy Center for the New South, and ACET. Embeddings via nomic-embed-text. A publication is counted as substantively engaging with a theme if sufficient text chunks score above a cosine similarity threshold to the theme description.