countries. However, for Tanzania and Ghana, two major aid recipients, aid did not seem to have been equally beneficial. This … exchange rate. In Ghana, declining aid in the 1970s was associated with lacking growth while the reactivation of aid flows in …

in Ghana to estimate gender wage gaps by correcting for this double selection process. We find that the average total … influenced by gender, it is appropriate to account for this double selection process. This study uses the latest household survey … gender wage gap is positive and significant irrespective of the sample selection correction method used. Our results indicate …

We examine gender differences in ambitions and expectations of jobseekers concerning self-employment, an increasingly … proposed option for youth in economies with limited wage employment. Analysing survey data on 2,036 tertiary graduates in Ghana …') do not explain gender differences. Our findings suggest early interventions may reduce gender differences in labour …

. We compare scenarios with different gender employment intensities in producing jatropha for biodiesel. Under all …

cent of the missing women are 'missing' from Africa. This paper employs a novel methodology to determine how the phenomenon … of missing women is distributed across Africa. Moreover, it provides estimates of the extent of excess female mortality … mortality for women in Africa. …

Africa should industrialize. Without structural change it cannot sustain recent growth. Economies with more diverse and … sophisticated industrial sectors tend to grow faster. But since 1980 Africa has deindustrialized. The paper shows that between 1975 … and 2005 the size, diversity and sophistication of industry in Africa have all declined. An industrialization strategy …

The global economic crisis beginning in 2008 has come at a very inopportune time for Africa. Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA …