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Financial Inclusion, Shocks and Poverty : Evidence from the Expansion of Mobile Money in Tanzania

Koppensteiner, Martin Foureaux - 2018

We estimate the effect of mobile money adoption on consumption smoothing, poverty and human capital investments in … intergenerational transmission of poverty …

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Revisiting Cross-Country Poverty Convergence in the Developing World with a Special Focus on Sub-Saharan Africa

Ouyang, Yusi - 2018

The literature on poverty convergence is sparse and much of the empirical evidence relies on Ravallion (2012) who found … a lack of poverty convergence across some ninety Less Developed Countries (LDCs) during 1977-2007. This paper revisits … cross-country poverty convergence using data from the same sources but an extended period, i.e. 1977-2014. We find that …

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Left Behind : Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital in the Midst of HIV/AIDS

Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude - 2010

This paper provides evidence on how adverse health conditions affect the transfer of human capital from one generation to the next. We explore the differential exposure to HIV/AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa as a substantial health shock to both household and community environment. We...

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The Dynamics of Job Creation and Job Destruction : Is Sub-Saharan Africa Different?

Shiferaw, Admasu - 2009

This paper analyzes the creation, destruction and reallocation of jobs in order to understand the micro-dynamics of aggregate employment change in African manufacturing. The nature and magnitude of gross job flows are examined using a unique panel data of Ethiopian manufacturing establishments...

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Malaria : Disease Impacts and Long-Run Income Differences

Gollin, Douglas - 2007

The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that malaria, a parasitic disease transmitted by mosquitoes, causes over 300 million episodes of quot;acute illnessquot; and more than one million deaths annually. Most of the deaths occur in poor countries of the tropics, and especially sub-Saharan...

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The Impact of Hiv/Aids on Human Capital Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa : New Evidence

Chicoine, Luke - 2020

The risk of AIDS-related mortality increased dramatically throughout the 1990s. This paper updates previous work by Fortson (2011) to examine the impact of mortality risk on human capital investment during the deadliest period of the pandemic. We combine Demographic Health Survey data from 30...

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Remittances and the Brain Drain : Evidence from Microdata for Sub-Saharan Africa

Bredtmann, Julia - 2016

Research on the relationship between high-skilled migration and remittances has been limited by the lack of suitable microdata. We create a unique cross-country dataset by combining household surveys from five Sub-Saharan African countries that enables us to analyze the effect of migrants'...

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Gender and Constraints to Entrepreneurship in Africa : New Evidence from Swaziland

Brixiova, Zuzana - 2015

This paper contributes to closing a knowledge gap on gender, entrepreneurship and development by linking the entrepreneurial productivity to start-up capital and skills. The empirical analysis of a survey of entrepreneurs in Swaziland confirmed the importance of start-up capital for sales. Women...

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Minimum Wages in Sub-Saharan Africa : A Primer

Bhorat, H. - 2015

Although the sectors and fraction of workers covered are small given the low rates of formality and urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), as the number of covered workers grows wage regulation will become increasingly significant. We find that higher minimum wage values are associated with...

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Prenatal Exposure to Heat Waves and Child Health in Sub-Saharan Africa

Bratti, Massimiliano; Frimpong, Prince Boakye; Russo, Simone - 2021

This paper investigates the consequences of prenatal exposure to hot temperatures on child health in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) using a novel indicator of heat waves (the Heat Wave Magnitude Index daily). Leveraging several geo-referenced waves of the Demographic and Health Surveys merged with...

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