machinery and information technology - within households in rural areas of Vietnam. We find that there has been little … development in the ownership of agricultural machinery, but a rapid expansion of information technology, especially phones …

Prioritizing public investments requires information on relative returns that are difficult to derive from disparate … evaluate rural investments in Uganda. Agricultural research and extension services are found to be much more effective at …

also going into Uganda and South Africa while South Africa is the darling of Western donors. Chinese funded projects are …

This paper begins by noting that Uganda has been a public sector reform leader in Africa. It has pursued reforms …' in Africa (and beyond). The problem is that many of the reforms have been limited to these kinds of gains - producing new … limitations and close the gaps between what Uganda's system looks like and how it functions. …

-source information - e.g. news reports, case studies, project inventories from embassy websites, and grant and loan data published by … recipient governments - about Chinese development finance activities in Africa that can be updated and improved through crowd … verify and update existing data with in-person interviews on Chinese development finance and site visits in Uganda and South …

The lingering policy dilemma facing many governments in sub-Saharan Africa in recent years is what can be done in the …

The mobile money transfer industry has been the most successful information and communications technology …-enabled service in Kenya, having recorded an exponential growth relative to its neighbours within the East Africa region. This could …

information on both "hard" and "soft" digital assets of the firm. Empirical results suggest that an increase in digital capability …

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 …

strategies by political parties during recent presidential elections in Kenya, South Africa, and Zambia. Specifically, the paper … argues that the nature of party competition in Africa, combined with rapid urbanization and informalization of the labour … Africa intersect with voting behaviour and political party development. -- Africa ; democratization ; political parties …