natural resources use in the rural economy matter in the overall dynamics of structural change. The concentration of the rural … poor on marginal lands is essentially a barometer of economy-wide development. As long as there are abundant marginal lands … in the economy. Moreover, the economy is vulnerable to the "Dutch disease" effects of a booming primary products sector …

growth and economic development in post-colonial Africa. The paper investigates the paradox of increased female enrollment in … importance of the informal economy in female economic activity. The first axis the paper studies is whether reducing educational …. Women's economic activities in the informal economy largely represent the commercialization of domestic skills and …

's economic marginalization in Sub-Saharan Africa from the pre-colonial period to the end of colonial rule. It is not that women … even in kinship structures in pre-colonial Africa, utilizing the concepts of "rights in persons" and "wealth in people …." Reviewing the processes of production and reproduction, it explains why most slaves in pre-colonial Africa were women and …

Africa will be undergoing substantial demographic changes in the coming decades with the rising working age share of … catch up to other developing countries. If the skill share of Africa's labor supply doubles because of improvements in … economy additionally by 22 percent by 2030 relative to the base case and reduce poverty by an additional 51 million people …

recovery in developed countries, numerous weather shocks, and civil conflicts in Africa? This paper "stress tests" African … economies. The findings indicate that Africa's long-term growth is fairly impervious to a prolonged recession in high … and violence will pose by far the greatest threat to Africa's performance …

-Saharan Africa; these changes went undetected by standard inequality measures. By developing a new decomposition technique based on a …