Fragile states in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) face challenges to respond to the effects of climate shocks and rising …

spells in Africa and the rest of the world using Bayesian Mode Averaging techniques for proportional hazards models. We …Do growth spells in Africa end because of bad realizations of the same factors that influence growth spells in the rest … of the world, or because of different factors altogether? To answer this question, we examine determinants of growth …

corporate bond markets in Africa. It then applies an econometric model to analyze the key determinants of African government …

Africa and its major Regional Economic Communities (RECs). The results of the instrumental variable and panel fixed …-effects estimation show that RTI promotes economic growth in Africa. However, it fosters income divergence, reflecting the distribution …

social mobility in Africa …

This paper uses census and household survey data on Cameroon, Ghana, and South Africa to examine immigration's impact … in the context of a segmented labor market in Sub-Saharan Africa. We find that immigration affects (i) employment (ii …

Rodriguez-Clare (2014), we estimate the welfare effects of the AfCFTA for 45 countries in Africa. Three different model … welfare gains from trade liberalization in Africa. As intra-regional import tariffs in the continent are already low, the bulk …

This paper documents the steady increase in intraregional trade in sub-Saharan Africa since 1980, links this rise to …-wide integration and the associated growth spillovers are discussed. Actions policymakers in sub-Saharan Africa can take to capture the …