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Benchmarking the Financial Performance, Growth, and Outreach of Greenfield Microfinance institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa

Bull, Greta; Cull, Robert J.; Harten, Sven; Nishida, Ippei - 2014

African microfinance institutions, indicating less outreach to the poorest market segments, greenfields have achieved rapid …In recent years there has been a rapid increase in the presence and growth of greenfield microfinance institutions in … Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper uses regressions to benchmark those African greenfields relative to other microfinance …

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Caseloads and Competence in Sub-Saharan Africa

Daniels, Benjamin; Das, Jishnu; Gatti, Roberta; Yi … - 2025

This paper presents a fundamental reassessment of the global human resources crisis in primary health care, using nationally representative survey data from 7,915 health facilities across 10 Sub-Saharan African countries. The reassessment consists of three main parts. First, in contrast to a...

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Sovereign Wealth Funds and Long-Term Investments in Sub-Saharan Africa

Diallo, Boubacar; Tchana Tchana, Fulbert; Zeufack, Albert G. - 2016

This paper explores the landscape, contributions, and determinants of sovereign wealth funds' long-term investments in Sub-Saharan Africa. The study finds that of all regions, Africa receives the lowest share of investment from sovereign wealth funds, and the landscape is dominated by Asian...

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ICT Use, Innovation, and Productivity : Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Cirera, Xavier; Lage, Filipe; Sabetti, Leonard - 2016

This paper examines empirically the links between adoption of information and communications technology (ICT), defined as usage by firms, innovation, and productivity using firm-level data for a sample of six Sub-Saharan African countries: the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Ghana, Kenya,...

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Intergenerational Education Mobility in Africa : Has Progress Been Inclusive?

Azomahou, Théophile; Yitbarek, Eleni A. - 2016

This paper employs nationally representative household survey data on parents of adult individuals to analyze the intergenerational transmission of education in nine Sub-Saharan African countries. The paper provides the levels, trends, and patterns of intergenerational persistence of educational...

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Prevalence, Economic Contribution, and Determinants of Trees on Farms across Sub-Saharan Africa

Christiaensen, Luc J.; Miller, Daniel C.; Muñoz, Juan … - 2016

Trees on farms are often overlooked in agricultural and natural resource research and policy in Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper addresses this gap using data from the Living Standards Measurement Study–Integrated Surveys on Agriculture in five countries: Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, and...

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Financial Viability of Electricity Sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa : Quasi-Fiscal Deficits and Hidden Costs

Kojima, Masami; Mohammadzadeh, Farah; Perez Arroyo, Ines; … - 2016

This paper studies the financial viability of electricity sectors in 39 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa using an approach similar to that in an earlier study, the Africa Infrastructure Country Diagnostic. The quasi-fiscal deficit in each country is calculated under two scenarios: existing...

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Inequality of Opportunity in Sub-Saharan Africa

Brunori, Paolo; Palmisano, Flaviana; Peragine, Vitorocco - 2016

In the last decades, inequality of opportunity has been extensively studied by economists on the assumption that, in addition to being normatively undesirable, it can be related to low potential for growth. This paper evaluates inequality of opportunity and the different sources of unequal...

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Roads and Rural Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Berg, Claudia; Blankespoor, Brian; Selod, Harris - 2016

This paper assesses the relation between access to markets and cultivated land in Sub-Saharan Africa. Making use of a geo-referenced panel over three decades (1970-2005) during which the road network was significantly improved, the analysis finds a modest but significant positive association...

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On the Central Role of Small Farms in African Rural Development Strategies

Larson, Donald F.; Muraoka, Rie; Ōtsuka, Keijirō - 2016

Improving the productivity of smallholder farms in Sub-Saharan Africa offers the best chance to reduce poverty among this generation of rural poor, by building on the limited resources farming households already possess. It is also the best and shortest path to meet rising food needs. Using...

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