As opposed to many other school inputs, textbooks have frequently been demonstrated to significantly foster student achievement. Using the rich data set provided by the 'Program on the Analysis of Education Systems' (PASEC) for five francophone, sub-Saharan African countries, this paper goes...

The impact of the policies advocated by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Africa are under increased scrutiny. African scholars and international NGOs concerned with Africa's development have asked whether the policies imposed by the World Bank and IMF in Africa have...

Sub-Saharan Africa is home today to some of the most unequal countries in the world, in Southern and Central Africa, as well as others that are close to the world average, in Western Africa. Yet, there is no consensus regarding the historical factors that led to such a situation. Given limited...

Limited knowledge of African inequality trajectories hampers our understanding of the drivers of heterogeneous inequality outcomes in Africa today, and leads to a major omission in debates about global inequality. In recent years, African economic history has advanced towards the reconstruction...

The COVID-19 pandemic has heavily affected Micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs). Using data from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys and other national statistics, this study aims to analyze the potential impact of MSMEs-related public policies in Côte d’Ivoire and Senegal over the last...

Do state holding companies promote the success of private participation in the water sector? Apparently not, judging from experience in four African countries. There are very few functions that state holding companies are better suited for performing than other entities are.When the Gambia,...