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Confronting Fragility and Conflict in Africa: What Does the Research Tell Us?
Over the past twenty years, Sub-Saharan Africa has grown at an impressive rate, roughly 4.3% per year. Growth may slow to 4% in 2015, but then moderately pick up in 2016. Poverty has been falling from...
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Agriculture in Africa – Telling Facts from Myths
One third of Africa’s food goes lost after it is harvested. Women’s labor contribution in African agriculture is regularly quoted in the range of 60 to 80 percent. Labor is 2 to 4 times more...
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Killing the Zombie Statistic: Women Contribute 60-80 Percent of Labor in...
How much of the work do women contribute to agriculture in Africa? Over the past decades, “60-80 percent” is the range that has regularly popped up--in celebrity speeches, policy conferences and...
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Agricultural Input Use in Africa – Revisiting our Meager Evidence Base
One of the most common assumptions underlying current policy and development interventions in Sub-Saharan Africa is that the use of all modern agricultural inputs – like chemical fertilizer, improved...
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Higher Salaries Can Worsen Corruption
For economists, it is borderline redundant to say that corruption has economic origins—classic and contemporary work has long held the belief that higher salaries are better for corruption. Due to the...
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Counting Africa’s Rural Entrepreneurs
In recent years there has been a growing interest in small rural business development and entrepreneurship as conduits for accelerating job opportunities – for the youth and for poverty reduction. This...
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The Ebola epidemic may be over soon, but the emergency won’t be
Photo Taken By: Dominic Chavez In May, the World Health Organization released numbers on how many health workers in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone have been affected by Ebola. The numbers are...
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L’épidémie d’Ebola est peut-être bientôt finie, mais l’urgence demeure
En mai, l’Organisation mondiale de la santé a publié les chiffres (a) relatifs au nombre d’agents de santé touchés par Ebola en Guinée, au Libéria et en Sierra Leone. Ces chiffres sont saisissants :...
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Building financial capability in Rwanda
Rwanda’s level of financial inclusion is fast increasing, propelled forward by ambitious targets and innovative policy and regulatory approaches. The 2008 and 2012 FinScope surveys showed that...
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Domestic factors drive maize price volatility in Burkina Faso, not external ones
Food price volatility remains a pressing challenge for many African countries (FAO, IMF, and UNCTAD, 2011). The vast majority of Africa’s population still derives a substantial share of their income...
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Inorganic fertilizer use in Africa: Not too low but not too profitable --...
Inorganic fertilizer use is claimed to be low in sub-Saharan Africa, but it is unclear whether using higher rates of fertilizer would be profitable. My coauthors and I sought to explore the effect of...
View ArticleFeeding West Africa: An Agenda for Regional Trade
At the heart of African economies is agriculture. Staple foods, including livestock and meat, cereals, pulses, roots and tubers represent the main source of calories in Sub-Saharan Africa. In West...
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Women’s livelihood strategies in Africa: New findings from a qualitative...
Policies and programs that seek to reduce women’s poverty in sub-Saharan Africa typically assume that women are constrained in improving livelihoods. The belief is that they aren’t the key...
View ArticleNourrir l’Afrique de l’Ouest : un agenda pour le commerce régional
L’agriculture est la pierre angulaire des économies africaines : en Afrique subsaharienne, les produits de base — le bétail et la viande, les céréales, les légumineuses, les racines et les tubercules —...
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Africa’s Hidden Underemployment Sink
Labor productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa has been garnering attention recently. Development economists focus on labor productivity because it tends to be strongly associated with overall well-being...
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Six critical areas for stability in West Africa
A few months ago, as I was walking through the streets of Bissau, the capital of Guinea Bissau, I reflected on what had happened to this country over the last 20 years. It had gone through a number of...
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20 en 5 : Comment l'Agence Française de Développement et la Banque mondiale...
L’ambiance est au renouveau et à l’optimisme sur le plus jeune des continents. Cela se voit à Addis Abeba, où le premier système de métro d’Afrique subsaharienne vient d’être inauguré. Cela se ressent...
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Is muscle or machine the future of agriculture in Africa?
Most of Sub-Saharan Africa’s (SSA) economies are dominated by the agriculture sector. On average, agriculture accounts for 32% of gross domestic product and employs 65% of the labor force. In some...
View ArticleWill Africa get a schooling dividend?
Will Africa benefit economically from its current fertility transition? Between 1990 and 2010, Africa’s birth rate fell from 6.2 to 4.9 births per woman. Such a decline was expected to enhance the...
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