Despite the notable progress made in the development of digital financial services in sub-Saharan Africa, no comprehensive measure is currently available to quantify this progress. Therefore, we constructed a digital financial inclusion index using a parametric approach. Our findings show an...

Family planning is a critical issue in countries, particularly those in sub-Saharan Africa, where high fertility rates coexist with low contraceptive use alongside ad- verse perinatal outcomes. Using a combination of ethnographic, ecological, and folklore data, we investigate the role played in...

This paper quantifies the impact of drought on household consumption for five main agroecological zones in Africa, developing vulnerability (or damage) functions of the relationship between rainfall deficits and poverty. Damage functions are a key element in models that quantify the risk of...