This paper explores the use of informal credit as a strategy for managing risks by market women in northern Ghana. A …. Based on qualitative data, the analysis reveals that market women invest a considerable amount of time in maintaining … high transaction costs and prevents market women from growing out of poverty in the long term. …

confined to men. In particular, administrative data from public pension systems are less reliable for women because of the … analyze a large data set from the German public pension scheme on women who died between 1994 and 2005, employing both non …-parametric and parametric methods. To overcome the problem mentioned above we concentrate on women with relatively long earnings …

larger than a simple OLS regression would suggest. Hence, policies to expand education in Sub-Saharan Africa, should not …

portfolio model of activity choices in war-affected rural Sub- Saharan Africa. A case study using farm household survey data …

by sub-regions, the magnitude of the colonial vestige in Africa is a significant determinant of emigration flows. Overall …

particularly useful and continue to actually construct such a measure for all countries in Africa. Finally, using this measure of … Ethno-Linguistic Affinity, I show that civil conflict in Africa is likely to spill over between contiguous ethno …