This paper compares two important sources of tax revenue statistics for African countries, namely the Africa Tax … Administration Forum's African Tax Outlook and the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research …

A consensus among social scientists is that fertility rates in Africa are declining. What determines these declines? I … Africa. This finding is consistent with the predictions of the unified growth theory and sheds important insights in … explaining the sustained income growth Africa has experienced since 1995. The paper also shows that the effects of income per …

poor growth in sub-Saharan Africa during post-independence. The current article employs the unique data and insights …

be an important ingredient of African development although private investment, openness, and human capital remain the … main drivers. Further analysis reveals the existence of a reverse causation from national income to tourism development …, thus confirming both tourism-led economic development and economic-driven tourism growth. Tourism is also observed to …

The Development under Climate Change research effort provides a basis for determining quantitative impacts on … infrastructure from climate change. This paper provides results of an analysis of sea level rise impacts on road infrastructure in …

This study examines the effect of climate on citywide labour productivity in the Accra city region. We use data from … Ghana's Integrated Business and Establishment Survey dataset, climate data at the sub-city level from Ghana Meteorological … African cities seek to understand the impact of climate change and how to integrate climate change considerations into urban …

recently been called the 'capability trap' in development - which results in many interventions producing new forms that are …

Botswana's welfare state is both a parsimonious laggard in comparison with some other middle-income countries in Africa … (such as Mauritius and South Africa) and extensive (in comparison with its low-income neighbours to the north and east … contract - to those of its neighbours in Southern Africa. It is the result of the specific character of poverty in Botswana and …

-based strategies exemplified under the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP). …Africa's improved growth performance over the last 15 years provides an opportunity for the continent to transit from … recovery to structural transformation. This paper reviews the evolution of development theory and practice, the role of …