promotes protective risk mitigation behaviors early in the COVID-19 pandemic across four African countries (Ghana, Malawi …, Sierra Leone, and Tanzania). Despite reputations for weak health sectors and low average levels of education, health … provision of health information, likely reduced the severity of the pandemic in Africa but was not a panacea …

accurate test. The results indicate that equality holds strongly for the most developed country in the sample (Zimbabwe), but … not at all for the least developed country (Tanzania). Moreover, the breakdown in correct remuneration in the two least …

At roughly 4% per annum, labor productivity in Tanzania has grown more rapidly over the past 12 years than at any other …-agricultural employment growth has occurred in the informal sector. Using Tanzania's first nationally representative survey of micro, small … economy-wide labor productivity growth in Tanzania between 2002 and 2012. However, virtually all of the labor productivity …

In the new millennium, the Western aid effort towards Africa has surged due to writings by well-known economists, a … celebrity mass advocacy campaign, and decisions by Western leaders to make Africa a major foreign policy priority. This survey … contrasts the predominant "transformational" approach (West saves Africa) to occasional swings to a "marginal" approach (West …

This paper explores whether one of the most important U.S. policies towards Africa of the past few decades achieved its …

young women in 227 clinics in Tanzania, Burkina Faso, and Pakistan. The intervention educated providers about bias towards …

rich panel data from farms in Tanzania and Uganda, we estimate our model using a flexible specification in which we allow …Standard measures of productivity display enormous dispersion across farms in Africa. Crop yields and input intensities …