Health Care in Cameroon: May Results Be Your Quest and May Change Be Your Result
An Innovative Approach to Health System Strengthening in Cameroon: Performance-Based Financing (PBF) As President of the Steering Committee for Cameroon’s Health Sector Support Investment Project, I...
View ArticleThe ten richest Africans own as much as the poorest half of the continent
In January 2014, Oxfam released a widely-cited briefing paper which argued that the richest 85 people in the world owned more than the poorest half of the population in 2013 (Oxfam, 2014).[1] In this...
View ArticleLe secteur de la santé au Cameroun : que les résultats soient votre quête, et...
Une approche innovante pour le renforcement du système de santé au Cameroun En tant que président du comité de pilotage du Projet d’Appui aux Investissements dans le secteur de la santé au Cameroun,...
View ArticleMobile connectivity in Africa has already arrived
What is the main difference between high-income and developing countries? Here is my take: People in the former have much more of pretty much everything. Almost everyone living in high-income countries...
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Terra Ranca! A fresh start for Guinea-Bissau
As international donors gather this week in Brussels to mobilize resources for Guinea-Bissau, the government and people of this West African nation appear ready for a fresh start.
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Terra Ranca! Um novo começo para a Guiné-Bissau
No día 25 de Março de 2015, a comunidade internacional reuniu-se em Bruxelas a fim de mobilizar recursos para a Guiné-Bissau, cujo governo e o povo guineense parecem prontos para um novo começo.
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Confronting Fragility and Conflict in Africa: What Does the Research Tell Us?
Over the past twenty years, Sub-Saharan Africa has grown at an impressive rate, roughly 4.3% per year. Growth may slow to 4% in 2015, but then moderately pick up in 2016. Poverty has been falling from...
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Agriculture in Africa – Telling Facts from Myths
One third of Africa’s food goes lost after it is harvested. Women’s labor contribution in African agriculture is regularly quoted in the range of 60 to 80 percent. Labor is 2 to 4 times more...
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Killing the Zombie Statistic: Women Contribute 60-80 Percent of Labor in...
How much of the work do women contribute to agriculture in Africa? Over the past decades, “60-80 percent” is the range that has regularly popped up--in celebrity speeches, policy conferences and...
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Agricultural Input Use in Africa – Revisiting our Meager Evidence Base
One of the most common assumptions underlying current policy and development interventions in Sub-Saharan Africa is that the use of all modern agricultural inputs – like chemical fertilizer, improved...
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Higher Salaries Can Worsen Corruption
For economists, it is borderline redundant to say that corruption has economic origins—classic and contemporary work has long held the belief that higher salaries are better for corruption. Due to the...
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Counting Africa’s Rural Entrepreneurs
In recent years there has been a growing interest in small rural business development and entrepreneurship as conduits for accelerating job opportunities – for the youth and for poverty reduction. This...
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The Ebola epidemic may be over soon, but the emergency won’t be
Photo Taken By: Dominic Chavez In May, the World Health Organization released numbers on how many health workers in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone have been affected by Ebola. The numbers are...
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L’épidémie d’Ebola est peut-être bientôt finie, mais l’urgence demeure
En mai, l’Organisation mondiale de la santé a publié les chiffres (a) relatifs au nombre d’agents de santé touchés par Ebola en Guinée, au Libéria et en Sierra Leone. Ces chiffres sont saisissants :...
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Building financial capability in Rwanda
Rwanda’s level of financial inclusion is fast increasing, propelled forward by ambitious targets and innovative policy and regulatory approaches. The 2008 and 2012 FinScope surveys showed that...
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Domestic factors drive maize price volatility in Burkina Faso, not external ones
Food price volatility remains a pressing challenge for many African countries (FAO, IMF, and UNCTAD, 2011). The vast majority of Africa’s population still derives a substantial share of their income...
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Inorganic fertilizer use in Africa: Not too low but not too profitable --...
Inorganic fertilizer use is claimed to be low in sub-Saharan Africa, but it is unclear whether using higher rates of fertilizer would be profitable. My coauthors and I sought to explore the effect of...
View ArticleFeeding West Africa: An Agenda for Regional Trade
At the heart of African economies is agriculture. Staple foods, including livestock and meat, cereals, pulses, roots and tubers represent the main source of calories in Sub-Saharan Africa. In West...
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Women’s livelihood strategies in Africa: New findings from a qualitative...
Policies and programs that seek to reduce women’s poverty in sub-Saharan Africa typically assume that women are constrained in improving livelihoods. The belief is that they aren’t the key...
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