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

Cull, Robert J. - 2017

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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Cabinet Size and Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa

Wehner, Joachim - 2020

measures of governance. The associations are robust in a regression framework that exploits within-country variation over time … simplistic policy prescriptions, a sizable increase in the number of ministers is likely bad news for governance …

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Is Poverty in Africa Mostly Chronic or Transient? Evidence from Synthetic Panel Data

Dang, Hai-Anh; Dabalen, Andrew - 2018

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 repeated cross sections that span, on average, a six-year...

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Is Inequality Systematically Underestimated in Sub-Saharan Africa? A Proposal to Overcome the Problem

Clementi, Fabio; Fabiani, Michele; Molini, Vasco; … - 2022

In Africa, evidence on the interactions among poverty, growth, and income distribution presents a puzzle: While growth has been robust in recent decades, the growth elasticity of poverty has remained low. This suggests that inequality has dampened the pro-poor effects of growth. However, when...

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Inequality of Opportunity in Sub-Saharan Africa

Palmisano, Flaviana - 2017

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

Diallo, Boubacar - 2017

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, X. - 2017

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 - 2017

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

Trimble, Christopher Philip - 2017

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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Roads and Rural Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Berg, Claudia - 2017

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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