hurting women?s labor supply and economic opportunities. This paper uses the rapid expansion of mining in Sub-Saharan Africa …. Effects are stronger in years of high world prices. Mining creates local boom-bust economies in Africa, with permanent effects …

, Jaumandreu, Mairesse, and Peters (2014) using a sample of over 15,000 firms in Africa, South Asia, Middle East and North-Africa …

This paper examines the country-level dynamics of long-run growth in Africa between 1975 and 2005. The authors examine …

This paper argues for night--lights data as an alternative data source for measuring spatial inequalities in Africa … income and lights-based measures of spatial income inequality in South Africa and shows that night-lights are a decent proxy … countries in Africa broadly reveals rising patterns between 1992 and 2013. Following the climate-economy literature, 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 …

economies in Africa need an alternative strategic approach to long-term growth. The purpose of this paper is to identify a … growth strategy with the greatest potential for small, landlocked economies in East Africa. The paper uses Malawi, Rwanda …. Undoubtedly, there are obstacles to transferring the advanced technologies wholesale to East Africa, but their eventual …