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Does the depth of informality influence welfare in urban sub-Saharan Africa?THIS ARTICLE IS ON EARLY VIEW | We explore the relationship between household welfare and informality, measuring household informality as the share of members’ activities (hours worked or income) without social insurance...
Informality Measurement PovertyWorking Paper
A fiscal approach to the social contract in sub-Saharan African countries: Looking for opportunities to strengthen trust in government and tax compliance by analysing citizens' perception of governanceThe COVID-19 pandemic showed that many developing countries could not respond effectively to crises due to their limited capacity to diversify their social protection responses...
Tax compliance Governance Sub-Saharan AfricaWorking Paper
The effects of taxation on income inequality in sub-Saharan AfricaThis paper investigates the effects of taxation on income inequality in an unbalanced panel of 45 countries in sub-Saharan Africa over the period 1980–2018...
Income inequality Taxation Regression analysisWorking Paper
Fintech in sub-Saharan AfricaThis paper traces the development of fintech in sub-Saharan Africa, its evolution over time, and the unfolding benefits attained at each stage of its adoption and market evolution...
Fintech Financial inclusion SavingWorking Paper
Pension funds in sub-Saharan AfricaThe population structure the world over is going through a demographic shift, and the elderly proportion is projected to increase with population growth...
Elderly care Pensions SavingWorking Paper
Incorporating informal workers into social insurance in TanzaniaExpansion of social protection reach among workers in the large informal economy represents a persisting and thorny challenge in the development context...
Informal sector Tanzania Social policyResearch Brief
Are women’s labour force participation rates improving in sub-Saharan Africa?Several sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries have achieved substantial economic growth in the past 30 years. Likewise, access to education has considerably expanded, as reflected in rising enrolment rates for both men and women...
Labour supply Gender Sub-Saharan AfricaWorking Paper
Financial liberalization and its implications for private savings in sub-Saharan AfricaThis paper employs data from 103 developing countries between 1981 and 2012 to examine the determinants of private savings in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), with a focus on the effect of financial liberalization on private savings...
Developing countries Financial liberalization SavingJournal Article
Female labor force participation in sub-Saharan Africa: A cohort analysisFemale labor force participation rates have been stagnating despite rising female education in sub-Saharan Africa since the turn of the millennium...
Labour supply Gender Sub-Saharan AfricaWorking Paper
Weathering shocks: the effects of weather shocks on farm input use in sub-Saharan AfricaThere has been much discussion on climate change and its adverse effects on agriculture, including excessive loss of food production...
Farm inputs Agriculture Climate changeJournal Article
Does connectivity reduce gender gaps in off-farm employment?: Evidence from 12 low- and middle income countriesGender gaps in labor force participation in developing countries persist despite income growth or structural change. We assess this persistence across economic geographies within countries, focusing on youth employment in off-farm wage jobs...
Gender gap Youth EmploymentJournal Article
Do gifts buy votes?: Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa and Latin AmericaPart of Journal Special Issue Clientelist Politics and Development
Elections vote-buying Sub-Saharan AfricaBlog
The pandemic and Africa's social safety netThe COVID-19 pandemic has shown that African tax and social-benefit systems are currently ill-equipped to protect households from sudden income losses...
Tax-benefit microsimulation SOUTHMOD Sub-Saharan AfricaBlog
Efforts to protect the poor during COVID: How five African countries faredThe number of people living in poverty around the world is estimated to have increased by half a billion people due to the COVID-19 crisis...
COVID-19 Sub-Saharan Africa Tax-benefit policyJournal Article
Informal work in sub-Saharan Africa: Dead end or stepping-stone?Despite rapid economic growth in recent decades, informality remains a persistent phenomenon in the labor markets of many low- and middle-income countries...
Informality Labour market dynamics Sub-Saharan AfricaWorking Paper
Fiscal states in sub-Saharan Africa: conceptualization and empirical trendsThis paper contributes to the debate on domestic revenue mobilization and state-building in the Global South by asking whether there are fiscal states in sub-Saharan Africa...
Fiscal states Sub-Saharan Africa Taxation