Infrastructure contributed 1.8 percentage points to Cote d'Ivoire's annual per capita GDP growth over the mid-2000s … before conflict began to erase the country's infrastructure and its growth contributions. Raising the country …'s infrastructure endowment to the level of the region's middle-income countries could boost the growth rate by a further 2 percentage …

This paper analyzes changes in agricultural productivity gender gaps in C?te d'Ivoire between 2008 and 2016 using …, but it is particularly remarkable for export crop productivity, likely due to increased adoption of fertilizer and …

The author provides a preliminary benchmarking of infrastructure performance in Lesotho in four major sectors … infrastructure performance from over 200 countries. The results of the benchmarking are revealing of several major, comparative … deficiencies in infrastructure performance in Lesotho: (1) extremely low access to electricity and its affordability; (2) poor …

accompanying freely downloadable Excel-based tool. It also constructs a new Infrastructure Efficiency Index (IEI), by combining …

This paper provides a systematic, empirical assessment of the impact of infrastructure quality on the total factor … productivity (TFP) of African manufacturing firms. This measure is understood to include quality in the provision of customs … TFP, and allocative efficiency. For each country the impact is evaluated based on 10 different productivity measures …

Empirical explorations of the growth and productivity impacts of infrastructure have been characterized by ambiguous … indirect) channels of influence between infrastructure and productivity improvements. The authors explore these possibilities … of infrastructure on labor productivity, and the indirect impact of infrastructure on total factor productivity …

This paper investigates the sources of growth in manufacturing productivity in Côte d'Ivoire, Ethiopia and Tanzania in … reallocation of market share between firms contributed substantially to productivity growth in each of the four countries, although … associated with increases in within-plant productivity. In addition, plant closure (or exit) boosted productivity more than new …

conflict on firms in terms of productivity loss. The results indicate that the conflict led to an average 16-23 percent drop in … firm total factor productivity and the decline is 5-10 percentage points larger for firms that are owned by or employing …