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Digital technology and productivity of informal enterprises: Empirical evidence from NigeriaThe lingering policy dilemma facing many governments in sub-Saharan Africa in recent years is what can be done in the short to medium term to boost the output and incomes of individuals and enterprises in the informal sector, given the size and persi...
Information technology Informal sector ProductivityWorking Paper
Informal–formal workers' transition in Nigeria: A livelihood analysisThis study evaluates the effects of the informal sector on Nigerian workers’ livelihoods and analyses workers’ transitions within the informal sector and between informal and formal employment...
Regression analysis Employment Formal and informalJournal Article
When the centre cannot hold: Patterns of polarization in NigeriaPart of Journal Special Issue Inequality
Consumption expenditure Nigeria PolarizationWorking Paper
Female work status and child nutritional outcome in NigeriaThis paper delves into the relationship between child nutritional outcome and (multiple) female work status in Nigeria from a micro perspective. The child nutritional outcome is proxied by child weight-for-age...
Female work status Income effect Child nutritionWorking Paper
Who trusts?: Ethnicity, integration, and attitudes toward elected officials in urban NigeriaIn the developing world, clientelism is common. In Africa, public office is often used to redistribute resources to ethnically defined constituencies, and this form of clientelistic exchange is a key determinant of vote choice...
Trust Identity PoliticsIn the media
Made in Africa book mentioned in Nigerian newspaper 'Business Online' columnThere is an urgent need to diversify Nigeria’s economy, but what really means economic diversification for Nigerian policy makers?
Industrial development Nigeria Exports