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…
From late 2010 through 2011, popular uprisings toppled authoritarian regimes in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya. In each country, a key component…
Money is essential for electoral politics yet its use and abuse often raises problems of graft, corruption, and cronyism. To throw new…
On June 23 and 24, twenty five experts met at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government under the auspices of the Geopolitics of…
A review of "Women and the Informal Economy in Urban Africa: From the Margins to the Centre."
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To reduce poverty and food insecurity in Africa requires raising productivity in agriculture.
Systematic use of fertilizer and hybrid seed…