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New technologies create opportunitiesThis 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...
Journal Article
Exploring regional and gender disparities in Beninese primary school attendanceDHS 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...
Journal Article
Legal Empowerment of the Poor through Property Rights ReformPart of Journal Special Issue Legal Empowerment and Group-Based Inequality
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Agro-processing and horticultural exports from AfricaPart of Book Industries without Smokestacks
Blog
A two-way street: Regional integration in southern Africa through supermarkets
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...
Working Paper
Legal empowerment of the poor through property rights reformLand 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...