occupation and education for Cameroon. We find that both in occupation and education, intergenerational mobility is higher for …'s education is strongest at the post-primary levels. Our results suggest that there is strong gender bias in intergenerational …

Cameroon's informal labour market largely harbours female workers, engaged mainly in low-productivity and low … segments. We use the 2010 Cameroon labour market survey, employing the recentred influence function and blending the Oaxaca … essentially among wage earners. Returns to experience mitigate the gender earnings gap at the mean, and 10th and 50th percentiles …

consumption of individuals over different growth spells in Cameroon, Senegal, and Tanzania. With cross-sectional data, we track …

paper examines the extent to which World Bank investments address unpaid care work. The paper conducts an in-depth gender … address unpaid care work. Doing so would improve economic and human development and reduce gender inequality. …

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. …

Many low income countries in Africa are optimistic that producing biofuels domestically will not only reduce their … needed. -- biofuels ; economic development ; food security ; poverty ; Africa …

We examine the implications of the rise of a middle class in East and Southern Africa for food consumption patterns and …

The growth of African multinational companies in Southern and East Africa in recent decades brings with it a great …

in order to investigate regional and gender disparities in primary school attendance rates in Benin. Despite almost … and show that, despite progress, gender disparities in education persist in Benin. The opportunity cost of attending …