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Industrial Policy in the 21st Century – the Challenge for Africa
Learning Industrialization Africa's Economic Development Journal Article
Legal Empowerment of the Poor through Property Rights Reform: Tensions and Trade-offs of Land Registration and Titling in Sub-Saharan AfricaPart of Journal Special Issue Legal Empowerment and Group-Based Inequality
Property Land rightsBook Chapter
Rwanda: From devastation to services-first transformationFrom the book: Industries without Smokestacks
Africa Economic growth ExportsBook Chapter
Agro-processing and horticultural exports from AfricaFrom the book: Industries without Smokestacks
Africa Agro-processing TradeBook Chapter
Tourism global value chains and AfricaFrom the book: Industries without Smokestacks
Tourism Africa Global value chainsBook Chapter
New technologies create opportunitiesFrom the book: Industries without Smokestacks
Africa Industrialization TechnologyBook Chapter
Excess female mortality in AfricaFrom the book: Towards Gender Equity in Development
Missing women Mortality GenderJournal Article
Exploring regional and gender disparities in Beninese primary school attendance: A multilevel approachDHS data is combined with school supply statistics to study primary school attendance in the 2005–06 school year in Benin, a country that has seen almost unparalleled increases in attendance since the 1990s...
Economic development Demand for schooling AfricaWorking Paper
New technologies create opportunitiesThis paper argues that new technologies—for communication, such as mobile phones and the internet, but also for manufacturing, agriculture, energy, and transport—have the potential to bridge many of the productivity gaps between sub-Sahar...
Africa Industrialization TechnologyWorking Paper
Excess female mortality in AfricaRelative to developed countries, there are far fewer women than men in parts of the developing world. Estimates suggest that more than 200 million women are demographically ‘missing’ worldwide...
Missing women Mortality GenderWorking Paper
The global politics of social protectionSince the early 2000s international development agencies have actively promoted social protection as a new global public policy...
Africa Policy transfer PoliticsWorking Paper
Rwanda: From devastation to services-first transformationSince civil war and genocide left the country in ruins, Rwanda has undergone a remarkable transformation...
Africa Economic growth ExportsWorking Paper
Exploring regional and gender disparities in Beninese primary school attendance: A multilevel approachThis study combines household survey data from the Beninese Demographic and Health Survey with school supply statistics in order to investigate regional and gender disparities in primary school attendance rates in Benin...
Economic development Demand for schooling AfricaBlog
A two-way street: Regional integration in southern Africa through supermarkets
Walk into any supermarket and you will find a mix of products to stock the kitchen. It’s easy to assume that many of the goods on offer are sourced locally and from nearby countries...
Regional growth Africa SupermarketsWorking Paper
Legal empowerment of the poor through property rights reform: Tensions and trade-offs of land registration and titling in sub-Saharan AfricaLand registration and titling in Africa has been seen as a means of legal empowerment of the poor that can protect smallholders’ and pastoralists’ rights of access to land and other land-based resources...
Property Land rightsWorking Paper
Modeling sustainable long-term electricity supply–demand in AfricaThis paper develops a scenario-based model to identify and provide an array of electricity demand in Africa, and to derive them from the African power system of development...
Energy planning Electricity Sustainable development