Africa will account for 80 percent of the projected 4 billion increase in the global population by 2100. The …

actively pursued in Africa. The benefits of monetary union come from a more credible monetary policy, while the costs derive …

for poverty alleviation. Although there are likely to be substantial efficiency gains from tariff reductions, these accrue … costeffective approach to poverty alleviation. Such an approach should be financed by switching revenue raising from rice tariffs to …

(SSA) countries. It is based on a panel dataset using methods that tackle slope heterogeneity, cross-sectional dependence …

Financial depth in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has been uneven over the last two decades. The WAEMU countries are lagging … to compare the two groups of countries. In a panel of 16 countries over 1997–2009, we find that the financial gap between …

Estimates of the current and future structure of employment in sub-Saharan Africa (2005–20) are obtained based on … household survey estimates for 28 countries and an elasticity-type model that relates employment to economic growth and … sector. Sub-Saharan Africa’s projected rapid labor force growth, combined with a low baseline level of private sector wage …

This paper examines the determinants of net interest margins in four regional blocks in Sub-Saharan Africa and one … for the view that market structure is also partly responsible for high net interest margins in Sub-Saharan Africa. If …

This Selected Issues paper focuses on the challenges of small middle-income countries (MIC) in sSub-Saharan Africa (SSA …