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Import tariff pass-through effect and the spatial distribution of domestic consumer go...

Working Paper 879 The study of import tariffs pass-through has been...

Haroon Bhorat, Everisto Mugocha

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Capital Account Liberalization and Capital Flows to Sub-Saharan Africa: A Panel Thresho...

Capital inflows to Sub-Saharan Africa have been increasing over the...

Tamara E. Mughogho, Imhotep P. Alagidede

Policy Brief

Effect of Financial Development on Economic Growth in sub-Saharan African: Does Sectora...

The role of financial sector development in economic growth has rec...

Paul Alagidede, Muazu Ibrahim

Policy Brief

Shaking out or shaking in: The impact of Zimbabwe's economic crisis on the country's ma...

Zimbabwe had one of the world’s worst economic crises from th...

Nicholas Masiyandima, Lawrence Edwards

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Naturally Available Pollinator Decline Will Decrease Household Food and Increase Gender...

This multi-country analysis studies the food security implications ...

Byela Tibesigwa

Working Paper

Financial Structure and Economic Growth: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

This study examines the effect of financial structure on economic g...

Eftychia Nikolaidou, Naomi M. Mathenge

Policy Brief

Electricity crisis and the effect of CO2 emissions on infrastructure-growth nexus in Su...

Sub Saharan Africa (SSA) has the greatest proportion of its populat...

Paul Alagidede, Chengete Chakamera

Policy Brief

Nonlinearities in Financial Development–Economic Growth Nexus: Evidence from sub–Sahara...

The impact of financial development on economic growth has received...

Paul Alagidede, Muazu Ibrahim

Policy Brief

Teacher human capital, teacher effort and student achievements in Kenya

Although research generally shows that teachers matter for student ...

Justine Burns, Fredrick M. Wamalwa

Policy Brief

Institutions and Other Determinants of Total Factor Productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa

The primacy of factors of production, such as labour and capital, o...

Olusegun A. Akanbi, David Fadiran

Working Paper

Aid Volatility and Structural Economic Transformation in sub-Saharan Africa

To what extent does Official Development Assistance (ODA) volatilit...

Thomas Yeboah, Muazu Ibrahim, Emmanuel Kumi

Policy Brief

Does Infrastructure Really Explain Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa

Given the well-known public infrastructure deficit in Sub-Saharan A...

Odongo Kodongo, Kalu Ojah

Policy Brief

An evaluation of the cost and revenue efficiency of the Zimbabwean banking sector

Banking sector efficiency measures the proximity of a decision maki...

Sanderson Abel, Pierre Le Roux

Policy Brief

Globalisation and Conflict: Evidence from sub Saharan Africa

This study contributes to the conflict literature by investigating ...

Manoel Bittencourt, Carolyn Chisadza

Policy Brief

Aid Volatility and Structural Economic Transformation in sub-Saharan Africa: Does Finan...

This paper departs from the traditional aid–economic growth studies...

Thomas Yeboah, Muazu Ibrahim, Emmanuel Kumi

Working Paper

Birth order effects on education attainment and child labour: Evidence from Lesotho

Education (both school enrolment and achievement) is low in much of...

Ramaele Moshoeshoe

Policy Brief

Financial sector development, economic volatility and shocks in sub-Saharan Africa

The role of financial sector development in economic volatility has...

Paul Alagidede, Muazu Ibrahim

Policy Brief

Foreign aid and foreign direct investment in Sub-Sahara Africa: A panel data analysis

This study examines the relationship between foreign aid and foreig...

Nara Monkam, Kafayat Amusa, Nicola Viegi

Policy Brief

What price level data tells us about consumer price rigidity in Zimbabwe: Evidence from...

Sometimes countries adopt new currencies which are not their own as...

Neil Rankin, Mike Nyawo

Policy Brief

Inflation dynamics in a dollarised economy: the case for Zimbabwe

The rapid and sustained loss in value of the Zimbabwean dollar, whi...

Pierre Le Roux, William Kavila

Policy Brief

Effects of wildlife resources on community welfare: Income, poverty and inequality

This paper demonstrates the importance of wildlife in the portfolio...

Edwin Muchapondwa, Herbert Ntuli

Working Paper

Globalisation and Conflict: Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa

Stephen Pinker (2011) advances that various forms of violence such ...

Carolyn Chisadza, Manoel Bittencourt

Working Paper

An application of Panzar-Rosse Approach in assessing banking sector competition in Zimb...

An assessment of bank competition is important for a number of reas...

Pierre Le Roux, Sanderson Abel

Policy Brief

An evaluation of the cost and revenue efficiency of the banking sector in Zimbabwe

The study was meant to evaluate the cost and revenue efficiency of ...

Sanderson Abel, Pierre Le Roux

Working Paper

The political and economic dynamics of foreign aid: A case study of United States and C...

The study revisits the issue of the determinants of (development) a...

Nara Monkam, Kafayat Amusa, Nicola Viegi

Policy Brief

Construction, institutions and economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa

The construction sector in developing countries has propelled econo...

Jones O. Mensah, Paul Alagidede

Policy Brief

The Fertility Transition: Panel Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa

We investigate the effects of different socioeconomic indicators on...

Manoel Bittencourt, Carolyn Chisadza

Policy Brief

Foreign aid and Foreign direct investment in Sub-Saharan Africa: A panel data analysis

Funding constraints experienced by Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countr...

Nicola Viegi, Nara Monkam, Kafayat Amusa

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Comovement between Africa and advanced economies, 1980-2011

This paper addresses that gap by analyzing business cycle comovemen...

Alain Kabundi, Elsabé Loots, Carike Claassen

Policy Brief

Assessing banking sector competition in Zimbabwe using a Panzar-Rosse Approach

This paper assesses the level of competition in Zimbabwe’s banking ...

Sanderson Abel, Pierre Le Roux

Working Paper

The Political and Economic Dynamics of Foreign Aid in Africa: A case study of United St...

The foreign aid arena as it pertains to the African continent has t...

Nara Monkam, Kafayat Amusa, Nicola Viegi

Working Paper

Taxes rates, economic crisis and tax evasion: Evidence using Zimbabwe and South Africa ...

Prompted by the theoretical ambiguity in the relationships between ...

Marko Kwaramba, Calvin Mudzingiri

Working Paper

Recent Growth Performance in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA): What should Policy Makers in the...

The recent decades have witnessed a series of global turbulence wit...

Beatrice D. Simo-Kengne

Policy Brief

Financial Innovation and Money Demand in Sub-Saharan Africa

Understanding the relationship between money demand and its determi...

John P. Dunne, Elizabeth Kasekende

Policy Brief

What explains the recent growth performance in Sub-Saharan Africa? Results from a Bayes...

This paper empirically identifies the main driving forces behind th...

Beatrice D. Simo-Kengne

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The data revolution in African economic history

Big Data can be consequential for the field of history. The surge i...

Johan Fourie

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