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India’s development cooperation in Africa: The case of ‘Solar Mamas’ who bring lightThis paper examines multiple facets of New Delhi’s development cooperation with countries in Africa and argues that grassroots organizations in India that find innovative, low-cost technological solutions to developmental challenges can help go...
India Africa development cooperationResearch Brief
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Assessing the impact of an intervention to withhold value-added tax in ZambiaImproving tax collection is essential if developing economies are to avoid over-reliance on external donor funds and loans...
Value-added tax Tax compliance Tax administrationWorking Paper
Public savings in Africa: Do sovereign wealth funds serve development?Do sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) contribute to Africa’s development? This paper assesses the objectives of SWFs (fiscal stabilization, productive investment, intergenerational saving) and discusses alternatives...
Saving Sovereign wealth funds Fiscal policyWorking Paper
Foreign aid and intergenerational mobility in AfricaWhile there is extensive literature examining the growth and development effects of foreign aid, very little attention has been paid to its potential impact on social mobility...
Foreign aid Intergenerational Mobility AfricaWorking Paper
Agricultural risks, the COVID-19 pandemic, and farm household welfare and diversification strategies in AfricaAgricultural activities in many African countries are bedevilled by a range of risk factors...
Risk COVID-19 Household welfareWorking Paper
Unravelling Africa’s raw material footprints and their driversThis paper applies an environmentally extended input–output analysis, leveraging the Eora database, to estimate the global raw material footprints of 51 African nations from 1995 to 2015...
Ecological footprint Input–output Raw materialsWorkshop
African Tax Administration Forum Master Class in collaboration with UNU-WIDER
Blog
Bride price or dowry?
Why is it that in some countries the parents of a bride pay dowry, whereas in some others the groom has to pay for the bride? What is the impact of different traditions on women’s lives?...
Marriage payments Women's empowerment Psychological aspects (Economics)Seminar
Diana Mitlin on why urban poverty in sub-Saharan Africa needs more attention
Journal Article
Decomposing learning inequalities in East Africa: How much does sorting matter?Inequalities in learning opportunities arise from both household- and school-related factors...
Africa Inequality of opportunities SortingIn the media
SOUTHMOD study on the impact of COVID-19 in Africa gains attention in media and different outlets
COVID-19 Africa Inequality Blog
Corona pandemic revealed gaps in African social security systems
Millions of Africans lost their jobs as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, but state social security systems were of little help to people who lost their income...
COVID-19 Income distribution PovertyPolicy Brief
Blog
An African in Africa: New perspectives on travelling for research
Working for an international organisation presents a host of challenges, given the vast nature of tasks that one must surmount in a fast paced and changing environment...
Zambia Ghana AfricaSeminar
Emmanuel Gyimah-Boadi and Joseph Asunka on Afrobarometer and SDG Scorecards