Multifunctional land-use systems : a solution for food security in Africa? / Elisabeth Simelton, Madelene Ostwald and Moses Osiru -- Nigerian climate-smart agriculture practices with scaling potential / Simon A Shomkegh -- Treating shea trees as crops improves women's livelihoods in Burkina Faso...

"This book discusses the vital importance of including indigenous knowledges in the sustainable development agenda. In the wake of colonialism and imperialism, dialogue between indigenous knowledges and Western epistemology has broken down time and again. However, in recent decades the broader...

Data coloniality: A decolonial perspective of Africa and the 4IR -- Historicising Africa's subjugation -- Contextualising the colonial project in Africa -- Data mining, harvesting and datafication -- Networks, big data and data coloniality: Whither Africa's sovereignty? -- The 4IR as the mother...

This paper examines interest rate spreads in English-speaking African countries. Higher spreads were found to be associated with lower inflation, a greater number of banks, and greater public ownership of banks. Higher deposit interest rates were found to be associated with lower interest rate...

This paper examines the progressivity of social sector expenditures and taxes in eight sub-Saharan African countries. It uses dominance tests to determine whether health and education expenditures redistribute resources to the poor. The paper finds that social services are poorly targeted. Among...

This paper measures the extent to which South African economic growth is an engine of growth in sub-Saharan Africa. Results based on panel data estimation for 47 African countries over four decades suggest that South African growth has a substantial positive impact on growth in the rest of...

We estimate a gravity model to address the question of whether Africa’s bilateral trade with industrial countries is “unusual” compared with other developing country regions. Our main finding is that the unusually low level of African trade is explained by economic size, geographical...