How did the economic crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic impact poor households in Sub-Saharan Africa This paper tackles this question by combining 73 High-Frequency Phone Surveys collected by national governments in 14 countries with older nationally representative surveys containing...

Unequal access to economic opportunity for individuals with different innate characteristics, such as ethnicity or parents' socioeconomic status, is often seen as both morally undesirable and bad for economic growth. This paper estimates inequality of opportunity, or the share of inequality...

What can be learned from the governance trajectory of African countries since the beginning of the 21st century What is the quality of governance on the African continent and how does it shape development The first decade of the millennium saw promising growth and poverty reduction in much of...

This edition of the Macro Poverty Outlooks periodical contains country-by-country forecasts and overviews for GDP, fiscal, debt and poverty indicators for the developing countries of Sub-Saharan Africa. Macroeconomic indicators such as population, gross domestic product and gross domestic...

Although access to reliable electricity enables manufacturing companies to increase their output, there have been few studies of the distribution of output growth between export and domestic markets. Although some papers have examined the impact of electricity reliability on exports (in volume...

Purpose - This study examines the roles of cross-sectional dependence, asymmetric structure and country-tocountry policy variations in the inflation-poverty reduction causal nexus in selected sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries from 1981 to 2019. Design/methodology/approach - To account for...

This article examines the relationships between public, private, and economic growth in Sub-Saharan African countries from 1990 to 2019. The study reveals that private investment significantly contributes to long-term economic growth in the region. In contrast, the impact of public investment on...

All African countries participate in the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) to boost intra-African trade to accelerate structural transformation. At the same time, increasing geopolitical tensions around the world are pressuring countries to 'reshore' by retreating from engagement in...

Purpose: This paper examines the effect of trade openness on youth employment in Sub-Saharan Africa, incorporating the roles of institutional quality and gender. Design/methodology/approach: The study employs the random effects estimator using a panel data of 35 Sub-Saharan African countries...

Industrialization has led to numerous environmental issues, prompting both industrialized and developing countries to adopt sustainable practices. This research investigates the impact of renewable energy and industrialization on the ecological footprint in Africa using the GMM method with data...