In sub-Saharan African countries, firms are suffering from frequent, long-lasting and random power outage, which makes planning and production activities difficult. Thus, understanding a firm's cost associated with unreliable power supply is crucial for policymakers and potential investors in...

The number of hungry and malnourished people in the world remains unacceptably high. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 2 (SDG2: Zero Hunger) by 2030 is moving increasingly out of reach, despite ongoing and widely publicized national, regional and global policy efforts to make progress (e.g....