This study measures the effects of international income, price and monetary shocks on income in 13 African countries through the Foreign Aid channel between 1970 and 2007, using a SVAR Model. We develop theoretical and empirical models that characterize these exposures. The results confirm that...

From a stronger view point, one of the major reasons for the lack of development in Africa is linked to the changes in Western ideological movements and forces which emerged in the early 1980's. Some scholars such as Rodney claim that Africa has always relied upon western economic development...

In this paper, we study the crowdsourcing of innovation in Africa through a data science contest on an intermediated digital platform. We ran a Machine Learning (ML) contest on the continent's largest data science contest platform, Zindi. Contestants were surveyed on their motivations to take...