The Zimbabwean nation has been struggling to gain economic development momentum in the multicurrency era despite numerous efforts being made by policy makers. The economy has since operated with budget deficits and high consumption expenditures in the form of wages for civil servants and little...

How well did Kenyans do under colonial rule?  It is common sense that Kenyans suffered under exploitative colonial policies.  The overall impact, however, is uncertain.  This study presents fresh evidence on nutrition and health in colonial Kenya by (1) using a new and comprehensive data set...

I exploit the sudden increase in employment in 1975, 1976 and 1977 in four former South African homelands to compare the long term adult outcomes of children benefitting from the employment increase to those not subject to it. Using a standard difference in difference approach I find that there...

I exploit the sudden increase in employment in 1975, 1976 and 1977 in some former homelands by comparing the long term adult physical outcomes of children benefitting from the employment increase to those not subject to it. Using a standard difference in difference approach I find that there was...

As the hunting, butchering, processing, and consumption of bushmeat is a potential source of human Ebola virus infections, the extent to which bushmeat is a substitute for food produced in the formal market sector suggests that the relative price of formal non-bushmeat food could matter for the...

French Abstract: [Le Brésil, soutient-il le développement en Afrique de l'Ouest ? L'exemple du Nigeria, du Ghana et du Sénégal] – Les relations étrangères et commerciales du Brésil avec l'Afrique subsaharienne (ASS) remontent à la traite négrière portugaise. Sur les 9,5 millions de...

Portuguese Abstract: [O Brasil apoia o desenvolvimento da África Ocidental? O exemplo da Nigéria, Gana e Senegal] -As relações externas e comerciais do Brasil com a África Subsaariana (ASS) remontam ao comércio português de escravos. Dos 9,5 milhões de pessoas capturadas na África e...

French Abstract: [La Turquie soutient-elle le développement Le développement durable en Afrique subsaharienne ?] - Aux XIXe et XXe siècles, la Turquie ne considérait que l'Afrique du Nord comme une partie substantielle de l'Empire ottoman et négligeait l'Afrique subsaharienne à moins que...

French Abstract: [La Turquie soutient-elle le développement Le développement durable en Afrique subsaharienne ?] - Aux XIXe et XXe siècles, la Turquie ne considérait que l'Afrique du Nord comme une partie substantielle de l'Empire ottoman et négligeait l'Afrique subsaharienne à moins que...