Does exposure to aid projects affect citizens’ motivation to pay taxes? As a form of externally-led state building, foreign aid projects can affect citizens’ perceptions of their domestic institutions in unintended ways. We combine geo-coded data on World Bank aid projects and survey data...

As the digital economy has touched the agricultural sector in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), it is useful to examine the impact of the digital economy on agricultural development. The study uses a panel data of 35 SSA countries from 2006 to 2021 and examines the relationship between digital economy...

Several globally driven endeavors endorse tree plantations as an intervention for resource restoration, with assumptions of socio-economic outcomes as co-benefits. Yet, evidence of such co-benefits remains questionable and unclear. Focusing on sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), we empirically reassess...

We examine the role of adaptation in mitigating the short-run impacts of temperature shocks on workers and firms in Sub-Saharan Africa. We do this by comparing “naïve” estimates of the short-run impacts of temperature shocks to the “pure” short-run effects obtained after conditioning on...

Population-based screening can prevent disease but also induce false positives to use low-value healthcare. Using data on individuals aged 40+ in rural South Africa and a multidimensional regression discontinuity design, we estimate effects of clinical referral based on blood pressure (BP) above...

We examine the distributional effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and associated tax-benefit measures in seven sub-Saharan African countries, focusing on the onset of the crisis. We evaluate impacts on disposable incomes, considering variations across income groups; assess the effectiveness of...

This paper investigates the impact of financial inclusion on sustainable firm growth in Northern African countries (Egypt, Morocco, and Tunisia) during the period of 2007-2020. To this end, this study employs a dynamic panel threshold regression (DPTR) model. This model is a panel-data model...

This paper critically examines the multinational oil companies' (MOCs) corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives in Nigeria. Its special focus is to investigate the impact of the global memorandum of understanding (GMoU) on addressing inequalities and empowering women for sustainable...