Little investigation has been made to explain why women are less likely than are men to support democracy in sub-Saharan Africa. This gender difference in politics has been found in numerous studies and may hinder the much needed legitimation of democracy in this region. This paper addresses the...

This paper exploits information from two different datasets to provide a novel and multi-dimensional picture of the engagement of all sub-Saharan African countries in global value chains (GVCs). It documents in detail the nature of the underlying data and the way it is used to construct several...

This paper investigates the effects of financial sector, product market, and trade reforms on labor productivity growth and its two components - the intra-sectoral (within) and inter-sectoral (between) components - in a sample of developing countries over 1975-2005. The paper finds that most of...