estimates based on household surveys of the productive payoff in Sub-Saharan Africa to nutrition and health, as proxied by adult … heterogeneity and sample selection are assessed in the cases of Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire. Political restrictions in South Africa … local quality of schooling, which appear to benefit disproportionately the above-average income households in Africa, as in …

Global Health Governance (GHG) comprises the means adopted to promote decision making on actions to protect and promote … global health, along with the underlying architecture of global health institutions, initiatives, and actors that facilitate … these means. GHG is a key factor influencing health outcomes throughout the world. Over the past decade, the GHG system has …

-term consequences of the conflict on food security in Africa. We use a long-run general equilibrium trade model and study three … compromise food security in Africa. We document important cross-country heterogeneity in the severity of impacts. … die möglichen langfristigen Auswirkungen des Konflikts auf die Ernährungssicherheit in Afrika. Wir verwenden ein …

Many low income countries in Africa are optimistic that producing biofuels domestically will not only reduce their …

The expected increase in aid to Africa will put a big challenge for public service delivery. Using a simultaneous … equation model, this paper provides an analysis of the effects of the volume and volatility of aid on education, health, water … for education and health seems to have a positive impact on the outcomes in these sectors, whereas total aid seems to be …

the elderly in sub-Saharan Africa, however, is scarce. We provide evidence from a randomized evaluation of an …-report better quality of life and a more stable mental health. We also provide evidence of spillover effects on the labor outcomes …

We estimate the effects of early childhood malaria exposure on education and health at older ages by exploiting … to worse mental and physical health outcomes in old age as reflected in particular in worse cognitive function, a higher …