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Beyond Aid : New Sources and Innovative Mechanisms for Financing Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Ratha, Dilip; Mohapatra, Sanket; Plaza, Sonia - 2012

Given Sub-Saharan Africa's enormous resource needs for growth, poverty reduction, and other Millennium Development Goals, the development community has little choice but to continue to explore new sources of financing, innovative private-to-private sector solutions, and public-private...

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Institutions and Labor Market Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa

Fox, Louise; Oviedo, Ana Maria - 2012

The authors use firm-level survey data from the manufacturing sector in 20 Sub-Saharan African countries to explore the links between labor market regulations and net job creation. A first look at firm characteristics, perceptions, and the dynamics of employment at the firm level suggests that...

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The African Growth and Opportunity Act, Exports, and Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Brenton, Paul; Hoppe, Mombert - 2012

The African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) is the flagship of U.S. commercial and development policy with Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper looks at the impact of the trade preferences that are the central element of AGOA on African countries' exports to the U.S. and puts them in the perspective...

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Roads, Electricity, and Jobs : Evidence of Infrastructure Complementarity in Sub-Saharan Africa

Abbasi, Mansoureh; Lebrand, Mathilde Sylvie Maria; … - 2022

Evidence for road expansion and electrification as drivers of job creation is limited and mixed, with most studies having considered either one or the other, and only in isolation. This paper estimates the average and heterogeneous impacts of road and electricity investments and the interaction...

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Resource-Backed Loans in Sub-Saharan Africa

Cust, James; Hwang, Jyhjong; Mihalyi, David; Rivetti, Diego - 2022

This paper investigates the characteristics of resource-backed lending across Sub-Saharan Africa. To shed light on this type of lending, the paper presents new information on 30 resource-backed loans between 2004 and 2018, identified through publicly available information. These loans were...

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Multidimensionality of Land Ownership among Men and Women in Sub-Saharan Africa

Hasanbasri, Ardina; Kilic, Talip; Koolwal, Gayatri; … - 2022

Across Sub-Saharan African countries with customary tenure systems and low levels of documented land ownership, there are limited nationally representative insights on men and women landowners' rights over land. Variations in institutions and norms governing land ownership further complicate...

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Economic Sentiments and Expectations in Sub-Saharan Africa in a Time of Multiple Shocks

Bentze, Thomas; Kilic, Talip; Wollburg, Philip - 2023

Against the background of high inflation, climate shocks, and concerns about rising food insecurity, this study documents the state of economic sentiments and expectations of households in five African countries-Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, and Uganda-that are home to 36 percent of...

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Combatting Forest Fires in the Drylands of Sub-Saharan Africa

Adjognon, Guigonan Serge; Nguyen Huy, Tung; van Soest, Daan - 2023

Forest fires are among the main drivers of deforestation and forest degradation in the drylands of Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper uses remote sensing data on forest fires and remaining tree cover to estimate the effectiveness of a project targeted at reducing fire incidences in twelve protected...

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The Welfare Cost of Drought in Sub-Saharan Africa

Baquie, Sandra; Calcutt, Evie Isabel Neall; Gascoigne, Jon - 2024

This paper quantifies the impact of drought on household consumption for five main agroecological zones in Africa, developing vulnerability (or damage) functions of the relationship between rainfall deficits and poverty. Damage functions are a key element in models that quantify the risk of...

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Sequencing Fiscal Decentralization

Bahl, Roy; Martinez-Vazquez, Jorge - 2012

While there is extensive knowledge about how to design fiscal decentralization policies, considerably less is … understood about how a decentralization program should be sequenced and implemented. Countries embarking on decentralization … often struggle with decisions about the essential components of decentralization, including the order of an introduction of …

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