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Digitization of Agribusiness Payments in Africa : Building a Ramp for Farmers' Financial Inclusion and Participation in a Digital Economy
World Bank Group - 2020
This report aims to present the rationale for digitization of agribusiness payments in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), assess … the current status of digitization using demand and supply-side data, and identify key actions that can help accelerate … digitization. The report draws on an analysis of financial-inclusion data from the Global Findex database, a survey administered to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012647522
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Digitization of Agribusiness Payments in Africa : Building a Ramp for Farmers' Financial Inclusion and Participation in a Digital Economy
World Bank Group - 2020
This report aims to present the rationale for digitization of agribusiness payments in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), assess … the current status of digitization using demand and supply-side data, and identify key actions that can help accelerate … digitization. The report draws on an analysis of financial-inclusion data from the Global Findex database, a survey administered to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012647589
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Enabling the Digital Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa : What Role for Policy Reforms?
World Bank Group - 2017
The five countries covered in this report share a number of characteristics and are facing similar challenges that justify their being monitored jointly. First, they face critical demographic issues that require immediate action to enable them to experience a population dividend rather than a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012248110
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Diversification, Growth, and Volatility in Asia
Papageorgiou, Chris - 2015
comparison with Sub-Saharan Africa. Much of the progress has occurred through diversification along the 'extensive margin', that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012245917
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Attracting private solutions and participation in the power sector in Sub-Saharan Africa : findings from a survey of investors and financiers
Probst, Benedict; Holcroft, Richard; Huenteler, Joern; … - 2020
This paper develops a classification of investor risks and surveys 51 private investors and financiers in the power sector in Sub-Saharan Africa. The paper aims for a better understanding of what can be done to attract private solutions to fill the investment gap. It finds that the average...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012257076
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Do Capital Inflows Boost Growth in Developing Countries? Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Calder�n, C�sar - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012246110
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Are Poor Individuals Mainly Found in Poor Households? Evidence Using Nutrition Data for Africa
Brown, Caitlin - 2017
Antipoverty policies in developing countries often assume that targeting poor households will be reasonably effective in reaching poor individuals. This paper questions this assumption, using nutritional status as a proxy for individual poverty. The comprehensive assessment for Sub-Saharan...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012246340
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Trade integration and growth : evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Calderón, César A.; Cantú, Catalina - 2019
This paper examines the growth effects of different dimensions of international trade integration-notably, volume, diversification, and natural resource dependence-in Sub-Saharan Africa. First, the paper documents the recent trends in these foreign trade dimensions for the region and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012051790
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Willingness to pay for electricity access in extreme poverty : evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Sievert, Maximiliane; Steinbuks, Jevgenijs - 2019
Improving electricity access in low-income countries is a challenging problem because of the high costs of grid extension and low demand for grid electricity in rural areas. This study elucidates these constraints by analyzing poor households' willingness-to-pay for different types of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012051950
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Taking power : women's empowerment and household well-being in Sub-Saharan Africa
Annan, Jeannie; Donald, Aletheia; Goldstein, Markus P.; … - 2019
This paper examines women's power relative to that of their husbands in 23 Sub-Saharan African countries to determine how it affects women's health, reproductive outcomes, children's health, and children's education. The analysis uses a novel measure of women's empowerment that is closely linked...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012121195