unable for institutional reasons to diversify their loan risks either within agriculture or across other geographically …

) emissions from agriculture. In a step towards a full evaluation of the impacts, it uses a counterfactual global model scenario … that currently tax agriculture have high emission intensities. Policies that directly reduce emission intensities yield …

Much of Africa has not yet gone through a "demographic transition" to reduced mortality and fertility rates. The fact …

-income countries that develop them and "inappropriate" elsewhere. We study this hypothesis in agriculture using data on novel plant …

Agricultural productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) lags far behind all other regions of the world. A long list of …

Africa's recent growth performance has raised expectations of a bright economic future for the continent after decades … of decline. Yet there is a genuine question about whether Africa's growth can be sustained, and if so, at what level. The … be agriculture-led or services-led growth, but it will look quite different than what we have seen before …

explaining patterns of political centralization in Africa …

In this paper we evaluate the impact of colonialism on development in Sub-Saharan Africa. In the world context … negative effect on development in Africa. To develop this claim we distinguish between three sorts of colonies: (1) those which …