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Foreign aid and structural transformation: Micro-level evidence from Uganda
(2019-03)
History tells us that sustained economic growth, necessary to alleviate poverty in sub-Saharan Africa, requires growth in the fundamentals, such as infrastructure and human capital, but also structural transformation, i.e., ...
Gold mining and education: a long-run resource curse in Africa?
(2016-06)
We provide micro-level evidence on an important channel through which mineral resources may adversely affect development in the long-run: lower educational attainment. Combining Afrobarometer survey data with geocoded data ...
Ethno-regional favouritism in Sub-Saharan Africa
(2014-03)
Studies of political favouritism in Africa often treat ethnic and regional favouritism as
interchangeable concepts. The present paper distinguishes between the two and investigates their relative influence in Sub-Saharan ...
Drought and Political Trust
(University of Gothenburg, 2023-04)
Droughts can affect people’s political trust positively, through rallying effects, or negatively, through blame attribution. We examine how drought conditions affect political trust in the context of Africa. We link ...