While the duality of African economies is well recognized in economic literature, only a few comprehensive studies have examined the formal and informal economies using the same instruments.
This book examines women’s economic empowerment in a range of developing country contexts, investigating the societal structures and norms which keep women from achieving economic equality.
The Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) analysis reveals that treating children at government health facilities was almost twice as expensive as by private doctors.
From 1998 to 2000, General Lamine Cissé was the Senegalese Minister of lnterior.
Women and children are inadequately covered by basic healthcare services.
Reduced reporting and responsiveness to illness by poorer mothers is common in many countries, and can be linked to lower levels of health awareness among the poor, combined with less education and
Low levels of government investment in health means that the largest share of health spending in Pakistan (65%), is contributed by private financing, 99% of which is household out-of-pocket spendin
The old regime in Tunisia provided false narratives of exaggerated prosperity and progress.
Researchers have developed and validated an Integrated Pest Management (IPM) package for fruit flies. In this project, the team will apply the IPM interventions in Southern Africa.
To address key limitations in sorghum production for approximately 5 million smallholder producers in Ethiopia, researchers will develop and deploy key technologies that reduce the risk of crop fai
In this study, a team of local researchers finds that non-farm income can protect against external
This paper examines a long-term participatory agriculture and nutrition program in northern Malawi that successfully improved child growth, crop diversity and food security through innovative educa