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The Job Ladder: Transforming informal work and livelihoods in developing countries

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New technologies create opportunities

This 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-Saharan Africa...

  • Africa
  • Industrialization
  • Technology
Journal Article
Exploring regional and gender disparities in Beninese primary school attendance

DHS 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. Results of a logistic regression model...

  • Economic development
  • Demand for schooling
  • Africa
Journal Article
Legal Empowerment of the Poor through Property Rights Reform

Part of Journal Special Issue Legal Empowerment and Group-Based Inequality

  • Property
  • Land
  • Rights
Book Chapter
New technologies create opportunities

Part of Book Industries without Smokestacks

  • Africa
  • Industrialization
  • Technology
Book Chapter
Tourism global value chains and Africa

Part of Book Industries without Smokestacks

  • Tourism
  • Africa
  • Global value chains
Book Chapter
Agro-processing and horticultural exports from Africa

Part of Book Industries without Smokestacks

  • Africa
  • Agro-processing
  • Trade
Book Chapter
Rwanda

Part of Book Industries without Smokestacks

  • Africa
  • Economic growth
  • Exports
Book Chapter
Excess female mortality in Africa

Part of Book Towards Gender Equity in Development

  • Missing women
  • Mortality
  • Gender
Blog
A two-way street: Regional integration in southern Africa through supermarkets
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by Katrina Jurva February 2017

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...

  • Regional growth
  • Africa
  • Supermarkets
Working Paper
Legal empowerment of the poor through property rights reform

Land 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. Land registration is also on the ethnojustice...

  • Property
  • Land
  • Rights
Presentation
Roosa Lambin and Milla Nyyssölä on social policy trajectories and women in Tanzania

The virtual conference Social Policy in Africa is organized 22-24 November 2021 by University of South Africa (UNISA) in the City of Tshwane in South Africa. On 22 November researchers Roosa Lambin and Milla Nyyssölä give a presentation in the...

22 November 2021
online, South Africa
Past event
Seminar
Diana Mitlin on why urban poverty in sub-Saharan Africa needs more attention
1 February 2022
Online, Helsinki, Finland
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In the media
SOUTHMOD study on the impact of COVID-19 in Africa gains attention in media and different outlets
  • COVID-19
  • Africa
  • Inequality
Panel discussion
Economic and political dynamics of Africa's emerging middle class

Economic and political dynamics of Africa's emerging middle class Robust economic growth in much of sub-Saharan Africa over the last decade is largely believed to have coincided with an expanding middle class. According to some estimates, the region...

23 June 2014 – 26 June 2014
Bonn, Germany
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Global Development Network 15th Annual Development Conference: Structural Transformation in Africa and Beyond

UNU-WIDER Special Session: Thursday 19 June, 2014, 16:00-17:30 Lessons from UNU-WIDER research: Research and Communication on Foreign Aid; Development Under Climate Change; and Learning to Compete

19 June 2014
International Conference Centre, Castle Rd, Accra, Ghana
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Seminar
Oxford Handbook of Africa and Economics

Peking University National School of Development, UNU-WIDER, African Development Bank and World Bank meeting of contributors to the Oxford Handbook of Africa and Economics.

8 December 2013 – 10 December 2013
Peking University National School of Development, 5 Yiheyuan Rd, Haidian, Beijing, China
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