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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
Female labor force participation in sub-Saharan Africa: A cohort analysisTHIS ARTICLE IS ON EARLY VIEW | Female 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 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 TaxationWorking Paper
No taxation without property rights: Formalization of property rights on land and tax revenues from individuals in sub-Saharan AfricaThe arguments that property rights and taxation positively affect development are well established in separate literatures, but the link between property rights and taxation is under-studied...
Property rights Taxation Sub-Saharan AfricaWorking Paper
Glimpses of fiscal states in sub-Saharan AfricaThere is a widespread perception that taxing in sub-Saharan Africa has been and remains fraught with problems or government failure. This is not generally true...
Tax Revenue Sub-Saharan AfricaWorking Paper
Do gifts buy votes?: Evidence from sub-Saharan AfricaVote-buying—or the pre-electoral distribution of private goods in exchange for support at the ballot box—is often blamed for the poor economic performance of many sub-Saharan countries...
Elections vote-buying Sub-Saharan AfricaPresentation
Eva-Maria Egger to present evidence on reducing employment gender gaps in low- and middle-income countriesEva-Maria Egger will present evidence on reducing employment gender gaps in low- and middle-income countries at a virtual brown-bag seminar hosted by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Malawi on Wednesday 19 May 2021. The...
Project workshop
Domestic savings mini workshop for country case authorsThis project workshop brought together the authors responsible for the country case studies of The domestic savings shortfall in developing countries – what can be done about it? project. The country studies will be included in a book volume...
Working Paper
Female labour force participation in sub-Saharan Africa: A cohort analysisFemale labour force participation rates have stagnated in sub-Saharan Africa since the turn of the millennium...
Labour supply Gender Sub-Saharan AfricaWorking Paper
Welfare and the depth of informality: Evidence from five African countriesThis study explores the relationship between household poverty and depth of informality by proposing a new measure of informality at the household level...
Informality Measurement PovertyTechnical Note
The Economic Transformation Database (ETD): content, sources, and methodsThis note introduces the GGDC/UNU-WIDER Economic Transformation Database (ETD), which provides time series of employment and real and nominal value added by 12 sectors in 51 countries for the period 1990–2018...
Database Employment value addedWorking Paper
Does connectivity reduce gender gaps in off-farm employment?: Evidence from 12 low- and middle-income countriesGender gaps in labour 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
COVID-19 and employment: Insights from the sub-Saharan Africa experienceThe COVID-19 pandemic poses risks not only for people’s health but also economic wellbeing. While the full socio-economic consequences remain uncertain, its impact on the labour market has become a key issue of global concern...
COVID-19 Employment Informal poor