Absent actual panel household survey data, this paper constructs, for the first time, synthetic panel data for more … than 20 countries accounting for two-thirds of the population in Sub-Saharan Africa. In this process, the analysis employs … countries as a whole have had pro-poor growth. One-third of the poor population escaped poverty during the studied period, which …

This paper estimates the impacts of mobile broadband coverage on household consumption and poverty in Nigeria, the … largest economy and mobile broadband market in Africa. The analysis exploits a unique dataset that integrates three waves of a … nationally representative longitudinal household survey on living standards with information from Nigerian mobile operators on …

impacts of the floods that occurred during the 2014/15 growing season in Malawi, using a two-period panel data set. The …

socioeconomic impacts of and responses to the pandemic among households and individuals in Sub-Saharan Africa. To do so, reduced …-form econometric methods are applied to longitudinal household survey data from Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, and Uganda - originating … from the pre-COVID-19 face-to-face household surveys and from the novel phone surveys that are being implemented during the …

households living in extreme poverty-Burkina Faso, Senegal, and Rwanda. Consistent with the theoretical model, the results … indicate very low household willingness-to-pay for electricity access, and that willingness-to-pay diminishes as households …-grid solar technologies in programs to provide household electricity to the poor in rural areas …

poverty. The comprehensive assessment for Sub-Saharan Africa reveals that undernourished women and children are spread widely … across the distribution of household wealth and consumption. Roughly three-quarters of underweight women and undernourished …

harvests and seasonality - two critical dimensions of smallholder agriculture in Africa - mediate the effects of export bans on … household welfare. This study assesses the short-term impact of export bans on prices and welfare of households in Malawi …, accounting for these heterogeneities. It uses monthly panel data on maize prices from 152 markets in Malawi and neighboring …