economies in Africa need an alternative strategic approach to long-term growth. The purpose of this paper is to identify a … growth strategy with the greatest potential for small, landlocked economies in East Africa. The paper uses Malawi, Rwanda …. Undoubtedly, there are obstacles to transferring the advanced technologies wholesale to East Africa, but their eventual …

This paper argues for night-lights data as an alternative data source for measuring spatial inequalities in Africa … income and lights-based measures of spatial income inequality in South Africa and shows that night-lights are a decent proxy … countries in Africa broadly reveals rising patterns between 1992 and 2013. Following the climate-economy literature, the …

of aggregate economic output. This paper argues that spatial aggregation of weather at the country level explains this …

smallholder cereal farmers contributed to this growth, but only when the weather was good, and prices were high. Access to markets …

three late-bloomers in East Africa offsetting the boom-bust pattern in Southern Africa and the never-significant response in … Central and Western Africa. Firm-level customs data for selected countries reveal that even in East Africa, the recent export …