In Africa, most development strategies include efforts to improve the productivity of staple crops grown on smallholder … farms. An underlying premise is that small farms are productive in the African context and that smallholders do not forgo …

subnational 2013 gross domestic product for 47 counties in Kenya and 30 districts in Rwanda. Estimating subnational gross domestic …. For Kenya, the results of the analysis affirm that Nairobi County is the largest contributor to national gross domestic … official statistics in Kenya and Rwanda, it is important to estimate subnational gross domestic product using standard …

As mobile phone ownership rates have risen in Africa, there is increased interest in using mobile telephony as a data … South Sudan. The experience was largely a success. High frequency panel data have been collected on a wide range of topics …

Absent actual panel household survey data, this paper constructs, for the first time, synthetic panel data for more … than 20 countries accounting for two-thirds of the population in Sub-Saharan Africa. In this process, the analysis employs …

nationally representative of the private sector in three East African countries -- Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda -- a positive …

difference-in-differences, to identify the effect of the Pesticides Initiative Program on exports of fresh fruits and vegetables … exports pooled over all products and destinations, it had a positive effect when considering fresh fruits and vegetables …