Firm capabilities-the abilities and practices to operate and innovate-are considered important drivers of firm performance. While the analysis of their importance is well established in developed countries, its study in the African context is more recent. The paper uses a new representative...

This brief includes the following headings: rationale, objectives, and basic features of the 1997 land law; acquiring land-use rights; obstacles to transferring urban land-use rights; promote the productive use of Direito de Uso e Aproveitamento dos Terras, or DUATs; and enforce the land tax

We run a lab-in-the-field experiment with 1,060 university students in Mozambique to examine the correlates of behavioural dishonesty, distinguishing between intrinsic and extrinsic factors. Using an incentivized dice game, which yields direct estimates of the propensity to cheat, we find that...

Von einem polit-ökonomischen Ansatz ausgehende Untersuchung der Probleme, die sich aus europäisch-kolonialen Grundbesitzvorstellungen und der Schaffung von Wildreservaten einerseits und der Notwendigkeit einer Sicherung der Existenzgrundlage sowie sakralen Vorstellungen der afrikanischen...