How can foreign aid to agriculture support economic growth in Africa? This paper constructs a geographically …

market integration in Central and Eastern Africa for three food staples: maize, rice, and sorghum. The paper uses a large …

Sound infrastructure is critical for growth in East Africa. During 1995-2005, improvements in infrastructure boosted …). Although power infrastructure sapped growth in other regions of Africa, it contributed 0.2 percentage points per year growth in … East Africa. If East Africa's infrastructure could be improved to the level of the strongest performing country in Africa …

-Saharan Africa. This paper decomposes trade costs into: (i) trade facilitation, (ii) non-tariff barriers, and (iii) the costs of … of trade costs in: (i) the East African Customs Union?Common Market of East and Southern Africa?South African Development …

China's World Trade Organization accession): it is not enough to assume, given Africa's high spatial inequality, that local …

the consequent stake in economic stability. This paper examines why such a process has not happened in Africa. The … neither the political weight nor the analytic capacity to play this role effectively. Yet in Africa, housing has never …

growth and economic development in post-colonial Africa. The paper investigates the paradox of increased female enrollment in …

's economic marginalization in Sub-Saharan Africa from the pre-colonial period to the end of colonial rule. It is not that women … even in kinship structures in pre-colonial Africa, utilizing the concepts of "rights in persons" and "wealth in people …." Reviewing the processes of production and reproduction, it explains why most slaves in pre-colonial Africa were women and …