The last decade has seen a resurgence of parastatal crop marketing institutions in sub-Saharan Africa, many of which … higher levels of poverty …

Partnering with a savings product provider in Kenya, we tested the extent to which behavioral interventions and …

With the year 2015 – the MDG finishing line – approaching, post-2015 goals as they impact Africa need to be firmed. The … goal of ending extreme poverty remains paramount. Globally, the World Bank set goals to end extreme poverty by 2030 and to … promote shared prosperity in every society. We examine feasibility of these objectives for Sub-Saharan Africa, the world …

Growth has been high and widespread in the last decade in Africa. Whether this shift in Africa's fortune has impacted … poverty has been a subject of controversy. This paper brings into focus recent evidence on the pace of poverty reduction in … Africa and addresses whether or not previously held belief that Africa is too poor to grow is relevant today. The findings …

' inability to cover short-term consumption needs with savings or credit. We conduct a field experiment in rural Zambia to …

Kenya that lengthened primary school by one year. An instrumental variables approach measures the exogenous variation in …

Firms in Kenya rely on technologies such as computers, cell-phones, and generators to overcome constraints associated … missionary schools from Kenya's colonial past, as well as geographical indicators such as rainfall, changes in forest cover, and …

took place in urban areas in Kenya. We find that youth, in general, prefer to work in jobs that have the attributes of …

of their unassisted competitors. We test this possibility using a two-stage randomized experiment in Kenya which …

Kenya. We use household level data from the 2009 Kenya Migration Household Survey (produced by the Africa Migration Project …