We exploit a policy designed to randomly allocate roommates in a large South African university to investigate whether interracial…
South Africa’s labor market exhibits a unique equilibrium with one of the highest unemployment rates in the world and yet a low level of…
The issue of debt sustainability has been the focus of continued theoretical and practical interest over the years. In emerging markets,…
This paper studies the role of technology in local-government tax collection capacity in the developing world. We first conduct a new…
March 2021, the Confederation of African Football’s President, Patrice Motsepe, insisted that “An African team must win the World Cup in…
The famine in the Horn of Africa reinforced the image of a continent struggling to feed itself. Behind these images of seeming despair,…
Libyans have a new lease on life, a feeling that, at long last, they are the masters of their own fate. Perhaps Iraqis, after a decade of…
Looking out the airplane window at a white winter landscape in Oslo yesterday, I thought back to another flight. Several years ago, a U.N.…
The role of science, technology, and engineering in solving Africa's most challenging economic problems—from telecommunications to…
Today, three of ten people on the planet rely on others to grow their food and 900 million remain chronically food insecure. By 2050 the…