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COVID-19 and employment: Insights from the sub-Saharan African experienceIntroduction The COVID-19 pandemic poses important risks for people’s health and economic wellbeing...
COVID-19 Employment informal poorBlog
Beyond lockdown: rebuilding the social contractContinued lockdown measures are straining the social contract between citizens and governments...
social unrest lockdown measures lockdown policiesWorking Paper
Unequal expectations: Gender inequality in salary expectations of university studentsStudents’ expectations about their future wages are established in the literature as relevant determinants of the choices made for education progression and, at the university level, for the area and course to be studied...
Inequality inequality decomposition StratificationWorking Paper
Africa’s lockdown dilemma: High poverty and low trustThe primary policy response to suppress the spread of COVID-19 in high-income countries has been to lock down large sections of the population...
COVID-19 lockdown measures lockdown policiesBook Chapter
Development and poverty in sub-Saharan AfricaWhen it comes to reporting on Africa, the international news media has, over time, delivered very mixed messages. Yet there are still many who characterize sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) as a region of hunger, economic crisis, and political unrest...
Sub-Saharan Africa Economic development TransformationWorking Paper
Structural transformation, openness, and productivity growth in sub-Saharan AfricaThis paper examines the connections of structural change and economic openness to labour productivity growth using a panel data set of 41 countries in sub-Saharan Africa for the period 1991–2015...
Sub-Saharan Africa Structural transformation Labour productivityWorking Paper
Informal work in sub-Saharan Africa: Dead end or steppingstone?Despite rapid economic growth in recent decades, informality remains a persistent phenomenon in the labour markets of many low- and middle-income countries...
Informality Labour market dynamics Sub-Saharan AfricaWorking Paper
Structural poverty dynamics in urban South Africa: A mixed-methods investigationThis paper examines the extent and determinants of structural poverty dynamics in South Africa, focusing on the socio-economically disadvantaged urban African population...
Poverty Social mobility Livelihood assetsBook Chapter
The negotiated politics of social protection in East and Southern AfricaFrom the book: The Politics of Social Protection in Eastern and Southern Africa
Social assistance Politics Sub-Saharan AfricaWorking Paper
Competitiveness and diversification of service exports in sub-Saharan Africa: The case of the East African CommunityGrowth in service exports has improved countries’ per capita incomes, reduced over-reliance on goods exports, and promoted economic diversification. However, the growth has not been uniform across regions and countries...
Service exports Competitiveness diversificationSeminar
Jakob Svensson on the low quality trap: evidence from the market for maize in UgandaJakob Svensson will present at the WIDER Seminar Series on 16 October 2019. Abstract - The low quality trap: evidence from the market for maize in Uganda Agriculture remains the main source of income for the large majority of the world’s poor...
Working Paper
The tax elasticity of formal work in African countriesA key policy problem in most developing countries is the size of the informal sector and its persistence over time...
Developing countries Informality Labour supplyJournal Article
Female leaders and gender gaps within the firm : Evidence from three Sub‐Saharan African countriesPart of Journal Special Issue Female Autonomy and Women’s Welfare
female managers gender gaps Sub-Saharan AfricaJournal Article
A human rights-consistent approach to multidimensional welfare measurement applied to sub-Saharan AfricaThe rights-based approach to development targets progress towards the realization of 30 articles set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In current practice, progress is frequently measured using the multidimensional poverty index...
first-order dominance Sub-Saharan Africa demographic and health surveyJournal Article
The impact of intergovernmental transfers on local revenue generation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from TanzaniaDo intergovernmental transfers reduce revenues collected by local government authorities (LGAs)?...
fiscal capacity intergovernmental grants Sub-Saharan AfricaJournal Article
Associations between key intervention coverage and child mortality: An analysis of 241 sub-national regions of sub-Saharan AfricaReducing child mortality remains a key objective in the Sustainable Development Goals...
Child mortality Health interventions Trend analysis