This paper investigates the local effects of mining on the quality of public services and on people's optimism about … data on the mines and their respective status from the SNL Metals and Mining. The geo-referenced data are matched with new … local governance, high incidence of bribe payment and low level of trust in local government officials. Residents of mining …

Tanzania is home to the third highest population of stunted children in Sub-Saharan Africa, with about 2.7 million …

This paper argues for night-lights data as an alternative data source for measuring spatial inequalities in Africa … income and lights-based measures of spatial income inequality in South Africa and shows that night-lights are a decent proxy … countries in Africa broadly reveals rising patterns between 1992 and 2013. Following the climate-economy literature, the …

This paper reviews resource sector developments in 12 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa that made their first (major …