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Addressing the Challenges of Sustainable Electrification in Africa through Comprehensive Impact Evaluations
(2021-09)Access to electricity leads to overall economic growth through improved agricultural and firm productivity, public service delivery, and enhanced household investment in human capital, net income, and general quality ... -
Strategic Environmental Commitment and Climate Change in Africa: Evidence on Mining and Deforestation
(2021-09)This paper addresses two issues on the link between mining, deforestation and environmental policy in Africa using a panel data of 35 African countries spanning over 2001-2017. First, we study the relationship between ... -
Targeting Industries to Drive Youth Employment
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Management of Socio-Economic Data on Land in Mali
(2020-04)Land management in Africa presents enormous challenges, both in terms of access to this important asset for life and in terms of its governance. These unsolved difficulties are still observable in both urban and rural ... -
Socioeconomic Land Data Management in Cameroon
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Understanding the Dynamics of the Fiscal Deficit and Economic Performance in Zimbabwe
(African Economic Research Consortium, 2021-11-15)The Government of Zimbabwe's desire to meet the country's development expenditure needs, following the attainment of independence in 1980, resulted in high fiscal expenditures which were not supported by adequate fiscal ... -
Impact of Institutional Quality on Tax Revenue in Côte d’Ivoire
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Natural Resources and Economic Growth in sub-Saharan Africa: Does Corruption Matter?
(African Economic Research Consortium, 2021-11-15)The existing literature on the relationship between natural resources (NRs) and growth is inconclusive. To enrich this debate, some studies have investigated the role of institutions in the NRs-growth nexus. Unlike ... -
The Influence of Women Empowerment on Child Nutrition in Rural Nigeria
(African Economic Research Consortium, 2021-11-15)Women empowerment is key to reducing weak dietary diversity and chronic child malnutrition. In Nigeria, child malnutrition is persistent, despite several interventions that failed to factor in the need to empower women ... -
Explaining the Gender Gap in Food Security in Côte d'Ivoire
(African Economic Research Consortium, 2021-11-15)This study sets out to determine the explanatory factors of food insecurity gap between female-headed households (FHs) and male-headed households (MHs) in Côte d'Ivoire. Using data from the Household Living Standards ... -
Impact of Agricultural Input Subsidy on Nutritional Outcomes in Malawi
(African Economic Research Consortium, 2021-11-15)The study examined the effect of agricultural input subsidy on nutrition in Malawi. The aim was to find out how Malawi’s Farm Input Subsidy Programme (FISP) affects nutrition. Household panel data from the Malawi ... -
Climate Change and Agricultural Trade in sub-Saharan Africa
(African Economic Research Consortium, 2021-11-15)Climate change is a threat to the agricultural sector and food security of many countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). However, changes in climate across the continent are not expected to be consistent as some countries ... -
Gender and Firm Performance in Cameroon
(African Economic Research Consortium, 2021-11-15)This study analyzes the contribution of women to the performance of Cameroonian companies. Based on data from the Cameroon Enterprise Survey, carried out in 2016 by the World Bank Group, the analysis focuses on three ... -
Recapitalization and Competition of Commercial Banks: Evidence from Selected sub-Saharan African Countries
(African Economic Research Consortium, 2021-11-15)In the last two decades, central banks in sub-Saharan African countries have witnessed a trend of the recapitalization policy, and many more are bracing up to undertake the same reform. Theoretically, increased capital ...
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