Abdoulaye, Seck(African Economic Research consortium, 2020-11-15)
Firms across sub-Saharan Africa still suffer from a large variety of on-the-border
and behind-the-border trade barriers. This paper empirically investigates how
reducing these trade-related costs and constraints through ...
Boako, Gideon; Alagidede, Imhotep P.(African Economic Research consortium, 2020-11-15)
This study examined time-scale connectedness between returns on African
stock markets and commodities across the energy, agriculture, metals, and
beverage markets with wavelet-based coherency, wavelet multiple crosscorrelation ...
Coulibaly, Dramane(African Economic Research consortium, 2020-11-15)
The persistent nature of external deficits in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is a major
concern. This paper examines the extent to which migration from SSA to OECD
countries affects the dynamics of external balances in SSA ...
Simael, Mbairassem(African Economic Research consortium, 2020-11-15)
This study examined the impact of finance on the profits derived by women
owned micro-enterprises in Chad, through undertaking a case study of the
city of N’Djamena. To achieve this objective, the study uses both the ...
Senou, Barthelemy Mahugnon(African Economic Research consortium, 2020-11-15)
Absenteeism is a phenomenon that has been noted in professional circles
with consequences on the income of the wage earner as well as the profits of
the firm, consequences that led, according to statistics from 2005, to ...
Beyera, Isabelle(African Economic Research consortium, 2020-11-15)
Using Gill’s (2000) conceptual framework, the present study is an institutional
analysis aimed at explaining the low level of tax revenue in Côte d’Ivoire. It is
based on data collected from the DPPSE of the country’s ...
This study aims at identifying the determinants of demand for micro-insurance
in Cameroon using a methodology based on the analytical framework proposed
by Heckman (1979). These are counting models with double selection. ...
Korsu, Robert Dauda(African Economic Research consortium, 2020-11-15)
The objective of this study is to investigate the determinants of non-natural
resource tax revenue and estimate its efficiency in ECOWAS countries. A
stochastic frontier tax function was estimated using annual data from ...
Kevin, Aboua Angui Christian Dorgelès(African Economic Research consortium, 2020-11-15)
This paper analyses the impact of climate variability on cereal, root, and tuber
crops diversification for selected West Africa countries during the period 1965-
2014. Crop diversification index, lumping together cereal, ...
Aka, Simone Edith Michèle(African Economic Research consortium, 2020-11-15)
Several employment options are available to job seekers in Côte d’Ivoire. Four
employment options are offered according to the market structure. This refers to
the public sector, formal private sector, non-agricultural ...
Nanziri, Lwanga Elizabeth(African Economic Research consortium, 2020-11-15)
This paper investigates the welfare gains following changes in aggregate financial
access. Using individual-level data collected in Zambia between 2009 and 2015,
results show that increasing the number of financial access ...
Raoul, Minfede Koe(African Economic Research consortium, 2020-11-15)
This study investigates the relationship between the land tenure security and
the financing of agricultural households. The study uses data from the third
Cameroun Household Survey (ECAM3), carried out by the National ...
Nampewo, Dorothy(African Economic Research consortium, 2020-11-15)
This study determines the existence and drivers of the asymmetrical response
of lending rates to policy rate changes in Uganda’s banking sector. Uganda’s
banking system seems to be faced with sticky adjustments of lending ...
Kumchulesi, Grace(African Economic Research consortium, 2020-11-15)
In 1992, the prevalence of stunting among under five children was 49%. In
2000, 2004 and 2010, the prevalence of stunting remained persistently high at
48%, 48% and 47%, respectively. However, this dropped dramatically ...
Ludovic, Feulefack Kemmanang; Bertelet, Ngassam Sylvain(African Economic Research consortium, 2020-11-15)
An analysis of statistics on foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows reveals that
some countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), which are heavily endowed with
natural resources and have internal conflicts, have managed to ...
This brief looks at the experiences of the past four months in dealing and coping
with COVID-19 pandemic in Africa and reflects on the responses governments have
made in their fight against the pandemic and assesses how ...
Appropriately characterizing and addressing the drivers of fragility is central to reducing fragility of growth in African economies. This is fundamental to African countries realizing robust, resilient and inclusive growth. ...