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Supporting Jobs for Young Women and Men in Africa: A Framework for Country-Level Analysis
(African Economic Research Consortium, 2022-04)Generating jobs for a growing population is a critical challenge that Africa faces. An additional 20 million young people will enter the working age population each year over the next decade. Africa has managed to ... -
Structural Change, Productivity, and Jobs Creation: Evidence from Tunisia
(African Economic Research Consortium, 2022-04)Today over 22 percent of Tunisian population is between the age of 15 and 29, and fully 47 percent of the population is under 30. This significant youth bulge could have been a good opportunity for Tunisia to benefit ... -
Crop Commercialization and Nutrient intake among Farming Households in Uganda
(African Economic Research Consortium, 2021-08)Agricultural commercialization is seen as a pathway towards rural economic transformation as it is expected to enhance a wide array of household welfare indicators. This study examines the channels through which household ... -
Export Efficiency and Diversification in Ghana
(2021-03)Ghana needs to expand its export base to generate sufficient foreign exchange earnings for economic transformation. There is, therefore, a need to examine the efficiency of the existing export basket and explore new ... -
Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture and Child Nutritional Outcomes in Rural Burkina Faso
(2021-08)Across developing countries, women play an important role both as producers of major food crops and in improving household nutrition. This research paper aims to assess the effect of improving women’s empowerment on ... -
Investigating the Sources of Asymmetric Growth and Inflation Shocks in the WAEMU Region
(2021-08)Empirical research has already established the existence of asymmetric shocks between the countries of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU). The current study re-examines this issue by attempting to ... -
Inclusive Growth in sub-Saharan Africa: Do Financial Depth and Inclusion Matter?
(African Economic Research Consortium, 2021-08)This study attempts to contribute to the existing literature by exploring the effect of financial inclusion and depth on inclusive growth for 26 sub-Saharan Africa countries. Using the random effects panel regressions, ... -
WTO Trade Facilitation Measures and the Extensive Margin of Exports in the Tripartite: COMESA – EAC – SADC
(African Economic Research Consortium, 2021-08)This study uses a gravity model for the year 2015 to analyze the impact of the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) on extensive margin of exports (export diversification proxied by the ... -
The Impact of Land Conflict on Land Productivity: Evidence from Liberia
(African Economic Research Consortium, 2022-03)This paper examines both the correlates of land conflict and the effects of this conflict on crop yields, farmers’ investments in permanent trees and crops. The productivity effects of land conflict are estimated at ... -
Landownership Inequality and Inequality in Education Attainment in Kenya
(2022-03)Unequal asset ownership accompanies other socioeconomic inequalities so that the disparity in physical possessions, particularly land, is worth a rigorous analysis. The case in point is the inverse relationship that ... -
Banking Industry Competition and Stability in Zimbabwe
(African Economic Research Consortium, 2021-08)The study investigates the impact of changes in banking industry competition on the industry's stability in Zimbabwe using a sample of eighteen banks for the period 2009-2017. The period of study coincides with an era ... -
Mobile Money Payment: An Antidote to Petty Corruption?
(African Economic Research Consortium, 2021-08)Using a two-period panel comprising firm-level data from the 2007 and 2013 World Bank Enterprise Surveys, this paper investigates the impact of mobile money use on bribe payments in Kenya. Results based on a matched ... -
Fiscal Policy and Monetary Integration in the ECOWAS
(African Economic Research Consortium, 2021-03)Those with dissenting views regarding the structure of monetary union arrangement in the ECOWAS often argue that the macroeconomic convergence criteria have hampered the ability of countries in the region to stabilize ... -
Land Tenure Insecurity, Fragmentation and Crop Choice: Evidence from Uganda
(African Economic Research Consortium, 2021)This study uses household, parcel, and plot-level data to analyze the effect of land tenure insecurity and land fragmentation on crop choice. We use formal land titling as a proxy for de jure land rights, and the ... -
Impact of School Quality on Schooling and Child Labour in Selected Zones of Ivory Coast
(African Economic Research Consortium, 2021-08)The fight against child labour is a challenge for policy makers in developing countries. The objective of this study is to find other policies to reduce child labour. Thus, this research shows the effect of school ... -
The Dynamics of Horizontal Economic Inequality in Countries Affected by Ethnic Conflict
(African Economic Research Consortium, 2021-08)This paper examines the dynamics of horizontal inequality in countries that have experienced ethnic conflict. This contrasts with previous studies which have focused on the effect of inequality on conflict. Understanding ... -
Adoption of Innovations and Productivity of Enterprises in French-Speaking sub-Saharan Africa: Case of Cameroon, Senegal and Ivory Coast
(2021-08)The productivity of firms is the result of many factors, including their ability to innovate. For most authors, innovation can be diversified into product, process, organization, and marketing innovation. The objective ... -
Crop Diversification and Nutrition Outcomes in Smallholder Households: Panel Data Evidence from Southwestern and Northern Uganda
(2021-08)This study examined the effect of adopting crop diversification on nutrition outcomes of smallholder households in southwestern and northern Uganda. We constructed three models of correlates of household dietary ... -
Bank Competition and Financial Inclusion: Evidence from Ghana
(African Economic Research Consortium, 2021-08)This paper investigates how banking sector competition, measured from the consumer's perspective as well as from financial intermediary pricing behaviour, affects financial inclusion in a developing country like Ghana. ... -
The Economics of Blockchain Within Africa
(2022-02)The advent of blockchain technology offers massive potential for revolutionary innovations that address fundamental constraints and market failures across a wide span of sectors in Africa. Blockchain has the ability ...
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