The delay in publication of Rwanda's gross domestic product figures has sparked the search for econometric tools to produce timely prediction of the current state of economic activity for timely policy making at the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning. Now-casting is a useful econometric...

1. An Overview: A Multidimensional Economic Assessment of Africa -- 2. Determinants of Smallholders’ Export-Oriented Cash Crop Production Decisions in Ethiopia: A Case of the Sesame Sector -- 3. Spatial integration of livestock markets in Ethiopia -- 4. New Urban Consumption Patterns and Local...

This paper investigates the extent to which business cycles of 15 ECOWAS countries are synchronized; which is one of the indicators of an optimum currency area. We employ wavelet tools to compute business cycle similarities and the distance matrix. Wavelet-spectra clustering indicates that Gambia,...

This study examines the causal effects of kitchen gardens on food consumption, vegetable intake and dietary diversity. We analyze a large and nationally representative sample of 9709 households in Rwanda, among which 65 percent practiced kitchen gardening. To identify causal effects, households...