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Can Africa Reduce Poverty by Half by 2015?
(Blackwell Publishing, 2007)
This study uses simulations to explore the possibility of halving the percentage of people living in extreme poverty in Africa by 2015. It is shown that initial levels of inequality and per capita consumption determine the ...
Harmful norms: Can social convention theory explain the persistence of female genital cutting in Africa!
(University of Gothenburg, 2021-11)
This paper investigates the explanatory power of social convention theory for explaining
the persistence of female genital cutting (FGC) in a broad sample of African countries. While
influential in policy circles, the ...
Assessing the Performance of Alternative Water and Sanitation Tariffs: The Case of Nairobi, Kenya
(2017-12)
Policy makers and utility managers can use a variety of tariff structures to calculate customers’ bills for water and sanitation services, ranging from a simple flat monthly fee to complicated multipart tariffs with seasonal ...
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 ...
Essays on Shocks, Welfare, and Poverty Dynamics: Microeconometric Evidence from Ethiopia
(2011-04-20)
Five self-contained papers constitute this thesis.
Paper 1: Does fertilizer use respond to rainfall variability? Panel data evidence from urban Ethiopia
In this article, we use farmers’ actual experiences with changes ...
An Empirical Test of Purchasing Power Parity in Selected African Countries - a Panel Data Approach
(2001)
The paper tests whether the theory of Purchasing Power Parity holds in a selected sample of twenty African countries. The paper employs a panel unit root test to test whether the real exchange rates in the panel are mean ...
Mining Booms in Africa and Local Welfare Effects: Labor Markets, Women’s Empowerment and Criminality
(2015-05-08)
The role that extractive industries can play in processes of economic development is
frequently described as, at best non-existent, or at worst, persistently negative. Extractive
industries, while focusing on unearthing ...
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 ...
Changing local customs: Long-run impacts of the earliest campaigns against female genital cutting
(University of Gothenburg, 2023-03)
This paper investigates the long-run impacts of Christian missionary expansion on the practice of female genital cutting (FGC) in sub-Saharan Africa. The empirical analysis draws on historical data on the locations of early ...
Aid and child health: Local effects of aid on stunting in Malawi
(University of Gothenburg, 2022-11)
Abstract: Motivated by a recent setback in the fight against child malnutrition, this study explores whether aid projects help to reduce stunting, or impaired growth, among children in the local area. Focusing on Malawi, ...