Nigeria's oil boom has not brought an end to perennial stagnation in the non-oil economy. Is this the unavoidable …

participation by individuals in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria using primary (micro) data. While grievance appears to be …

This study assesses the redistributive effects of fiscal policy in Mali and Niger. Fiscal policy is poverty increasing … in Mali (by 2.4 percentage points) and Niger (2.5 percentage points). This is a result of primarily two factors: indirect … taxes (value-added taxes and import duties) and direct fiscal transfers. Although the richest people in Mali and Niger pay …

very poor. This paper presents evidence that a cash transfer project in rural Niger induced investments in assets and …

implications to Niger relative to its expanding mineral sector. The key to the benefits of significant mineral revenue lies with …

per capita growth performance of Niger, one of the lowest contributions in Sub-Saharan Africa. Raising the country …'s infrastructure endowment to that of the region?s middle-income countries could boost annual growth in Niger by about 4.5 percentage … points. Niger has made significant progress in some areas of its infrastructure, including water and telecommunications. But …

reduction. In Niger, as in many other African countries, productivity is even lower among female peasants. To build policy … aggregate and detailed levels to identify the factors that explain the productivity gap. The analysis finds that in Niger on … gap tends to be widest among Niger'smost productive farmers. The primary factors that contribute to the gender …