How can foreign aid to agriculture support economic growth in Africa? This paper constructs a geographically …

In this paper, Arbache, Go, and Page examine the recent acceleration of growth in Africa. Unlike the past, the …

Recorded remittances to Africa have grown dramatically over the past decade. Yet data limitations still mean relatively …

remittances on income, poverty, inequality, and human capital (or, in general,welfare) as well as difficulties confronting … remittances implies a need to carefully spell out the rationale for interventions. It also notices the lack of good migration data …

Workers' remittances have become a major source of income for developing countries. However, little is still known … about their impact on poverty and inequality. Using a large cross-country panel dataset, the authors find that remittances … are robust to the use of different instruments that attempt to correct for the potential endogeneity of remittances …

Using firm-level data on manufacturing sectors in Africa, this paper addresses how domestic supply constraints and … firm-level export intensity. Some qualitative differences exist between Africa's regional exports and exports to the global …, implying the relevance of addressing behind-the-border constraints in fostering regional integration in Africa. Customs …

countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, and derives a formal specification of investment functions in the primary, industry, and …

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 …