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Despite Kenya’s strong economic growth, expansion of employment in the formal sector has been slow over the last two decades. There has been limited structural change in the composition of recorded employment and the share of the informal sector rem…
Eldah Onsomu
Boaz Munga
Bonface Munene Mujuri
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This paper aims to identify the determinants of business formalization in West Africa, specifically in Senegal, Benin and Burkina Faso. The methodology used is based on a theoretical model on formality and a Logit model. We adopted the segmentation …
Abdou Khadre Dieng
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The Government of Zimbabwe's desire to meet the country's development expenditure needs, following the attainment of independence in 1980, resulted in high fiscal expenditures which were not supported by adequate fiscal revenue inflows and this resu…
William Kavila
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Generating jobs for a growing population is a critical challenge that Africa faces. An additional 20 million young people will enter the working age population each year over the next decade. Africa has managed to generate economic growth since the …
Dirk Willem Te Velde
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Although Tunisia has developed its higher education to move up the value chain, its economy has not been able to grow beyond low-skilled and low-wage activities. As a result, the newly unemployed have been mainly young and well-educated people, refl…
Mohamed Amara
Faycel Zidi
Hela Jeddi
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This study examines the effects of episodes of civil conflicts in Burundi on its economic performance. The study applies the regression method using Extreme Bound Analysis, and the Synthetic Control method. Our main results indicate that: (i) from 1…
Arcade Ndoricimpa
Michel Armel Ndayikeza
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In the past decade, digitisation and the adoption of digital technology requiring data systems has become widely spread in Africa. With this comes the complexities of how data is collected, processed, shared, and utilised, including issues of data p…
The Collaboration on International ICT Policy in East And Southern Africa (CIPESA)
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The fight against the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in Uganda dealt a blow to the enjoyment of digital rights. From the on-set of COVID-19 responses, there was a significant increase in the collection and processing of personal data as the governm…
The Collaboration on International ICT Policy in East And Southern Africa (CIPESA)
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The right to privacy has come under increased attack in many African countries, with the proliferation of digital technologies being matched by state measures that negate this right. In the past few years, many countries across the continent have en…
The Collaboration on International ICT Policy in East And Southern Africa (CIPESA)
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The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a unique process which involves a review of the human rights records of all United Nations (UN) Member States. The UPR is a state-driven process under the auspices of the Human Rights Council (HRC), which provi…
The Collaboration on International ICT Policy in East And Southern Africa (CIPESA)
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Transitional justice is a tried and tested approach in post-conflict peacebuilding. It presents challenges and opportunities in regions plagued by violent extremism, such as the Lake Chad Basin. The duration and scale of abuses call for an explorati…
Akinola Olojo
Maram Mahdi
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Charcoal is increasingly becoming a primary energy choice, accounting for 96% of cooking fuel for the growing urban population of South Sudan. Yet not much is known about the level of government regulation to make the woodfuel, especially the charco…
Nhial Tiitmamer
Jok Gai Anai
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On 13 May 2020, Lesotho became the last country in Africa to report its first case of COVID-19 – weeks after declaring a state of national emergency, closing its borders with South Africa and its schools, and going into the first of several lockdown…
Libuseng Malephane
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Namibia reported its first case of COVID-19 on 13 March 2020. Four days later, the government declared a state of emergency that would eventually encompass a ban on international travel and mass gatherings, social distancing, and phased lockdowns (W…
Christiaan Keulder
Theodora Aba Abekah Koomson
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This paper presents a case study of the Honey Bee Network’s decentralized model for collecting, verifying and disseminating grassroots innovations and provides a roadmap for its replication in Africa. The Honey Bee Network brings together government…
Anil Gupta
Chintan Shinde
Anamika Dey
Ramesh Patel
Chetan Patel
Vipin Kumar
Mahesh Patel
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Abidjan, the economic capital of Côte d´Ivoire, is built around the Ebrié Lagoon on the Atlantic Ocean. Boats and ferries have always been part of the urban transport system. Ferries (pinasses) are essential to enable particularly the poor to mainta…
Estelle Gnankon Kabran
Irit Eguavoen
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Public works programs (PWPs) in sub-Saharan African countries have re-emerged as an important policy to stimulate employment generation in addition to their protective role such as consumption smoothening. The paper reviews evidence on the extent to…
Tekalign Gutu Sakketa
Joachim von Braun
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High population growth rates in Ethiopia are likely to aggravate farmland scarcity, as the agrarian share of the population stays persistently high, but also create increasing demand for food and non-food biomass. Based on this expectation, this stu…
Ermias Engida Legesse
Amit Srivastava
Arnim Kuhn
Thomas Gaiser
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In the quest to reduce global under- and malnutrition, which is particularly high among smallholder farmers, agriculture-nutrition linkages have received a lot of attention in recent years. Researchers have analysed the link between the quantity of …
Thomas Daum
Filippo Capezzone
Regina Birner
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African farm systems remain the least mechanized of all continents. There were substantial state-led efforts to promote agricultural mechanization during the 1960s and 1970s, but these efforts failed, which led to a subsequent neglect of mechanizati…
Thomas Daum
Regina Birner
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