The production of charcoal to meet cooking needs of urban households is one of the main causes of deforestation and degradation of Africa’s tropical forests, which offer significant carbon sequestration capacity to the global economy. In collaboration with a reputable local microfinance...

Charcoal production to meet the cooking needs of urban households is one of the leading causes of deforestation and degradation of Africa’s tropical forests. We randomly distributed Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG) stoves to urban households in Tanzania through subsidy and on credit to measure...

Charcoal production to meet the cooking needs of urban households is one of the leading causes of deforestation and degradation of Africa’s tropical forests. We randomly distributed high-cost Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG) stoves to urban households through subsidy and on credit and measured...

While it is possible for economies to grow based on abundant land or natural resources, more often structural change-the shift of resources from low-productivity to high-productivity sectors-is the key driver of economic growth. Structural transformation is vital for Africa. The region's...

While it is possible for economies to grow based on abundant land or natural resources, more often structural change?the shift of resources from low-productivity to high-productivity sectors?is the key driver of economic growth. Structural transformation is vital for Africa. The region?s...

Patterns of correlation in innovation and contractual practices among manufacturing firms in Ethiopia and Sudan are documented. Network data that indicate whether any two firms in the utilized sample do business with each other, buy inputs from a common supplier, or sell output to a common...

"In the early 1990s the World Bank launched the Regional Program on Enterprise Development in several African countries, a key component of which was the collection of manufacturing firm-level data. In this paper the authors review the research based on the data sets generated by these and...