For decades, agricultural price and trade policies in Sub-Saharan Africa have hampered farmers contributions to … time series of country level indexes, as well as Africa-wide aggregates. They also provide annual commodity market indexes …

responses to the earlier spike lowered the (negative) nominal assistance coefficient for agriculture by one-third between 1972 …

Water and sanitation utilities in Africa operate in a high-cost environment. They also have a mandate to at least … of the world. The increasing block tariff (IBT) is the most common tariff structure in Africa. Most African utilities are …

increased or remained stable in rural Africa. For all four services, among the poorest households coverage remains virtually … community to progressively increase access to modern infrastructure services in Africa. …

The paper's objective is to explain factors underlying Africa's weak infrastructure endowment and to identify suitable … developing countries over the period 1960 to 2005. The paper also examines subregional differences within Africa. They make use … conditioning factors, as well as adjusting for potential endogeneities. Results show that Africa lags behind all other regions of …

This paper documents the prevalence of in-house generation of electric power by firms in Sub-Saharan Africa and …-which has been on the rise in recent years-accounts for about 6 percent of installed generation capacity in Sub-Saharan Africa …