In most instances, it can be argued that the resources of a particular area form the basis of its economic development. In the case of the present study, it was found that although the catchment of Lake Fundudzi boasts cultural and natural resources that are regarded as being of significance for...

Long seen as artificial barriers inherited from decolonisation, West African borders now lie at the heart of policies designed to encourage regional trade and combat political instability. This rediscovery of the peripheries of the nation state has fostered a proliferation of institutional...

L’objectif de cette note est d’analyser les raisons pour lesquelles la libéralisation du commerce mise en œuvre par les États ouest-africains n’a pas conduit à un renforcement de leurs frontières, mais, au contraire, à une détérioration de leur capacité à contrôler les...

Longtemps considérées comme des obstacles artificiels hérités de la décolonisation, les frontières ouest-africaines sont aujourd’hui au cœur des politiques visant à favoriser les échanges inter-régionaux et à lutter contre l’instabilité politique. Cette redécouverte des marges...

Ethnic favoritism is seen as antithetical to development. This paper provides credible quantification of the extent of ethnic favoritism using data on road building in Kenyan districts across the 1963-2011 period. Guided by a model it then examines whether the transition in and out of democracy...

In Sub-Saharan Africa, 600 million people live without electricity. Despite ambitions of governments and donors to invest in rural electrification, decisions about how to extend electricity access are being made in the absence of rigorous evidence. Using a novel dataset of 20,000 geo-tagged...

The chapter critically reviews the methods available for the ex post counterfactual analysis of programs that are assigned exclusively to individuals, households or locations. The emphasis is on the problems encountered in applying these methods to anti-poverty programs in developing countries,...