Despite recent improvements in economic performance, undernutrition rates in Africa appear to have improved much less … growth and reductions of child undernutrition in Africa. We do this by pooling all DHS surveys for African countries, control …

Official data substantially underreports the number of Covid-19 cases and deaths in Africa as testing and surveillance … capacities are limited in many countries. Estimations of excess mortality show that Africa compares relatively favorably to other … pressure on health systems and the economy, the dramatically low vaccination rate of about 5 percent in Africa has to be …

Arbitrarily designed borders have been identified by a recent literature as an important reason why sub-Saharan Africa … luminosity) by tracking provincial–level border changes in Africa during 1992-2013 with GIS techniques. Difference …

-Saharan Africa remains one of the least developed regions on the globe. Accordingly, administrative border reforms may be a way to … local economic development (proxied by nighttime luminosity) by tracking state-level border changes in Africa during 1992 …

institutions implemented in SubSaharan Africa. The 2020 pandemic is a 'natural experiment' showing that governments and …

This paper studies the relationship between Asia’s economic engagements in Africa and individual African nations …’ participation in global value chains (GVC) over the past two decades. We find that while overall exports from Africa to Asia are …