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…
Political Scientists have produced a substantial body of theory and evidence
that explains variation in the availability of local public…
The prevailing aid orthodoxy works well enough in stable environments, but is ill-equipped to navigate contexts of volatility and fragility…
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The currently intense debate about ‘land
grabs’ or ‘land investment’ in Africa has reinforced the significance
of relations around land…
Book abstract: How do individual Africans view competitive elections? How do they behave at election time? What are the implications of new…