This paper investigates the relationship between mining and spatial inequality in Africa during 2001-12. The … socioeconomic development in Africa …

Data from the Groningen Growth and Development Center's Africa Sector Database and the Demographic and Health Surveys … reveals that much of Africa's recent growth and poverty reduction has been associated with a substantive decline in the share … shifts in employment shares for future growth and development in Africa south of the Sahara …

service delivery in Sub-Saharan Africa. They also provide a lens through which the growing experimental and quasi …

, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa, this process is accompanied by a change in land tenure, whereby plots held under traditional …

allocation of present-day World Bank aid at the grid-cell level in Africa. The correlation is robust to an extensive set of …

In this paper, Arbache, Go, and Page examine the recent acceleration of growth in Africa. Unlike the past, the …

This paper studies the cyclical aspects of fiscal policy in Sub-Saharan Africa countries during 1970?2014. It compares … since 2002 in Sub-Saharan Africa, with incipient signs of a shift toward acyclical or more countercyclical policies. The …-Saharan Africa. Official development assistance is found to exacerbate the procyclical stance of fiscal policy in the region, but the …

three late-bloomers in East Africa offsetting the boom-bust pattern in Southern Africa and the never-significant response in … Central and Western Africa. Firm-level customs data for selected countries reveal that even in East Africa, the recent export …

sectors of the economy, consequently leading to a reduction in the number of employment opportunities in Africa. Using geodata … that electricity shortages exert a substantial negative impact on employment rates in Africa. The evidence also shows three …