Journal of African Economies

1992 - 2025

Current editor(s): Francis Teal

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2016, volume 25, articles suppl_2

Preface pp. ii1-ii2

Lemma W. Senbet

Resource Funds: Stabilising, Parking, and Inter-generational Transfer pp. ii20-ii40

Anthony Venables and Samuel Wills

Sovereign Wealth Funds and Natural Resource Management in Africa pp. ii3-ii19

Samuel Wills, Lemma W. Senbet and Witness Simbanegavi

Should Countries Invest Resource Revenues Abroad When Demands for Public Infrastructure Are Pressing at Home? The Dilemma of Sovereign Wealth Funds in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. ii41-ii58

Joe Amoako-Tuffour

Financing Africa's Infrastructure Deficit: From Development Banking to Long-term Investing pp. ii59-ii73

Rabah Arezki and Amadou Sy

2016, volume 25, articles suppl_1

Editor's choice Preface pp. i1-i2

Lemma W. Senbet

Youth Employment in Sub-Saharan Africa: Challenges, Constraints and Opportunities pp. i3-i15

Louise Fox, Lemma W. Senbet and Witness Simbanegavi

Africa's Got Work To Do: A Diagnostic of Youth Employment Challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. i16-i36

Louise Fox and Alun Thomas

What is in a Job? The Social Context of Youth Employment Issues in Africa pp. i37-i60

Olawale Ismail

Minimum Wages and Youth: The Case of South Africa pp. i61-i102

Haroon Bhorat, Aalia Cassim, Ravi Kanbur, Benjamin Stanwix and Derek Yu

2016, volume 25, articles 5

Agricultural Technology Adoption under Climate Change in the Sahel: Micro-evidence from Niger pp. 637-669

Solomon Asfaw, Federica Di Battista and Leslie Lipper

Determinants of ‘Exit’ from High Aid-Dependence pp. 670-698

Degol Hailu and Admasu Shiferaw

The Impact of Social Health Insurance on Household Fertility Decisions pp. 699-717

Stephen O. Abrokwah, Christine M. Moser and Edward Norton

2016, volume 25, articles 4

Introduction to the Special Issue Africa's Macroeconomic Vulnerabilities pp. 499-501

Michael Bleaney and Cesar Calderon

Citius, Altius, Fortius: Is Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa More Resilient? pp. 502-528

Cesar Calderon and Sebastien Boreux

Inflation and Fiscal Deficits in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 529-547

Michael Bleaney and Manuela Francisco

The Cyclical Nature of Fiscal Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 548-579

Cesar Calderon and Ha Nguyen

International Financial Flows and Macro-Financial Risk in SSA pp. 580-613

Philip Lane

Fiscal Policy and Civil Conflict in Africa pp. 614-636

Alvaro Aguirre

2016, volume 25, articles 3

Revisiting the Link Between Political and Financial Crises in Africa pp. 323-366

Sara Bertin, Steve Ohana and Vanessa Strauss-Kahn

Time Discounting and Credit Market Access in a Large-Scale Cash Transfer Programme pp. 367-387

Sudhanshu Handa, Bruno Martorano, Carolyn T. Halpern, Audrey Pettifor and Harsha Thirumurthy

Destination or Distraction? Querying the Linkage Between Off-Farm Work and Food Crop Investments in Kenya pp. 388-417

Melinda Smale, Yoko Kusunose, Mary K. Mathenge and Didier Alia

Formal Insurance and the Dynamics of Social Capital: Experimental Evidence from Uganda pp. 418-438

Francesco Cecchi, Jan Duchoslav and Erwin Bulte

Who Benefits from Customary Justice? Rent-seeking, Bribery and Criminality in sub-Saharan Africa pp. 439-467

Olivia D'Aoust and Olivier Sterck

Heterogeneous Aid Effects on Tax Revenues: Accounting for Government Stability in WAEMU Countries pp. 468-498

Hermann Yohou, Michael Goujon and Wautabouna Ouattara

2016, volume 25, articles 2

Editor's choice FDI and Migration of Skilled Workers Towards Developing Countries: Firm-Level Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 201-232

Rezart Hoxhaj, Léa Marchal and Adnan Seric

Economic Analysis of Land and Livestock Management Interventions to Improve Resilience of a Pastoral Community in Southern Ethiopia pp. 233-266

Brigham W. Forrest, D. Layne Coppock, DeeVon Bailey and Ruby A. Ward

Quantifying the Process and Performance of River Basin Water Management Decentralisation in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 267-299

Ariel Dinar, Javier Ortiz Correa, Stefano Farolfi and Joao Mutondo

Role of Access to Credit in Rice Production in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Mwea Irrigation Scheme in Kenya pp. 300-321

Timothy Njeru, Yukichi Mano and Keijiro Otsuka

2016, volume 25, articles 1

Editor's choice The Impact of the Slave Trade on Literacy in West Africa: Evidence from the Colonial Era pp. 1-27

Nonso Obikili

Dollarisation in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 28-54

Juan Corrales, Patrick Imam, Sebastian Weber and Etienne Yehoue

Political Influence on Fiscal and Monetary Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 55-109

Rebecca Neumann and John Ssozi

Contribution of Structural Change to Productivity Growth: Evidence from Tunisia pp. 110-132

Mohamed Marouani and Rim Mouelhi

Interventions to Stop Female Genital Cutting and the Evolution of the Custom: Evidence on Age at Cutting in Senegal pp. 133-158

Giulia Camilotti

Social Preferences and Environmental Quality: Evidence from School Children in Sierra Leone pp. 159-199

Giovanna d'Adda and Ian Levely

2015, volume 24, articles suppl_2

Preface pp. ii1-ii2

Lemma W. Senbet

Fiscal Reforms and Public Investment in Africa pp. ii16-ii42

Christopher Adam and David Bevan

Tax and Expenditure Reforms in Africa: An Overview pp. ii3-ii15

Ramos Mabugu and Witness Simbanegavi

Tax Evasion, the Provision of Public Infrastructure and Growth: A General Equilibrium Approach to Two Very Different Countries, Egypt and Mauritius pp. ii43-ii72

Andrew Feltenstein, Nour Abdul-Razzak, Jeffrey Condon and Biplab Kumar Datta

Pro-Poor Tax Policy Changes in South Africa: Potential and Limitations pp. ii73-ii105

Ramos Mabugu, Ismael Fofana and Margaret Mabugu

2015, volume 24, articles suppl_1

Preface pp. i1-i2

Lemma W. Senbet

Financial Inclusion and Innovation in Africa: An Overview pp. i3-i11

Thorsten Beck, Lemma Senbet and Witness Simbanegavi

The Role of Informal Financial Services in Africa pp. i12-i31

Leora Klapper and Dorothe Singer

Cross-Border Banking and Financial Deepening: The African Experience pp. i32-i45

Thorsten Beck

Financial Innovations and Their Implications for Monetary Policy in Kenya pp. i46-i71

Lydia Ndirangu and Esman Morekwa Nyamongo

2015, volume 24, articles 5

Editor's choice From Guesstimates to GPStimates: Land Area Measurement and Implications for Agricultural Analysis pp. 593-628

Calogero Carletto, Sydney Gourlay and Paul Winters

The Effect of Schooling on Worker Productivity: Evidence from a South African Industry Panel pp. 629-644

Rulof Burger and Francis J. Teal

Large-scale Agro-Industrial Investments and Rural Poverty: Evidence from Sugarcane in Malawi pp. 645-676

Raoul Herrmann and Ulrike Grote

Deep Integration in Eastern and Southern Africa: What are the Stakes? pp. 677-706

Edward Balistreri, David Tarr and Hidemichi Yonezawa

2015, volume 24, articles 4

Editor's choice Crises, Economic Integration and Growth Collapses in African Countries pp. 471-501

Abdilahi Ali and Katsushi Imai

The Impact of Ethnic Violence in Kenya on Wheat and Maize Markets pp. 502-529

Luis Gil-Alana and Prakarsh Singh

The Determinants of Earnings Inequalities: Panel Data Evidence from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa pp. 530-558

Andrew Kerr and Francis Teal

School Fees and Access to Primary Education: Assessing Four Decades of Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 559-592

Talan Iscan, Daniel Rosenblum and Katie Tinker

2015, volume 24, articles 3

Editor's choice Testing for Competition in the South African Banking Sector pp. 303-324

Witness Simbanegavi, Joshua B. Greenberg and Tendai Gwatidzo

Banking Sector Efficiency in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 325-351

François Boutin-Dufresne, Oral Williams and Tomasz A. Zawisza

Beyond Aid: How Much Should African Countries Pay to Borrow? pp. 352-366

Cheikh A. Gueye and Amadou Sy

Households' Income-Generating Activities and Marginal Returns to Labour in Rural Tanzania pp. 367-389

Måns Nerman

A Disaggregated Analysis of Product Price Integration in the Southern African Development Community pp. 390-415

Neil Balchin, Lawrence Edwards and Asha Sundaram

Resource Allocation in Extended Sibships: An Empirical Investigation for Senegal pp. 416-452

Karine Marazyan

Family Networks and Income Hiding: Evidence from Lab-in-the-Field Experiments in Rural Liberia pp. 453-469

Gonne Beekman, Marcel Gatto and Eleonora Nillesen

2015, volume 24, articles 2

Editor's choice Kinship, Trust and Moral Hazard in the Motorcycle-Taxi Market in Togo and Benin pp. 173-192

Moussa Blimpo

Rural Policies, Price Change and Poverty in Tanzania: An Agricultural Household Model-Based Assessment pp. 193-229

Luca Tiberti and Marco Tiberti

Inter-Temporal and Spatial Price Dispersion Patterns and the Well-Being of Maize Producers in Southern Tanzania pp. 230-253

Bjorn Van Campenhout, Els Lecoutere and Ben D'Exelle

Household Out-of-Pocket Expenses on Health: Does Disease Type Matter? pp. 254-276

Fleur Wouterse and Mahamadou Tankari

Climate Change and Economic Growth in Africa: An Econometric Analysis pp. 277-301

Babatunde O. Abidoye and Ayodele Odusola

2015, volume 24, articles 1

Editor's choice China's African Financial Engagement, Real Exchange Rates and Trade between China and Africa pp. 1-25

Sylviane Guillaumont Jeanneney and Ping Hua

Decentralised Beneficiary Targeting in Large-Scale Development Programmes: Insights from the Malawi Farm Input Subsidy Programme pp. 26-56

Talip Kilic, Edward Whitney and Paul Winters

Impact of Natural Disasters on Education Outcomes: Evidence from the 1987–89 Locust Plague in Mali pp. 57-100

Philippe De Vreyer, Nathalie Guilbert and Sandrine Mesplé-Somps

Impressive Growth in Africa Under Peace and Market Reforms pp. 101-127

Gonzalo Salinas, Cheikh Gueye and Olessia Korbut

Respondent-Driven Sampling: A New Method to Sample Businesses in Africa pp. 128-147

Charles Q. Lau and Georgiy V. Bobashev

Reverse-Share-Tenancy and Agricultural Efficiency: Farm-Level Evidence from Ethiopia pp. 148-171

Hosaena H. Ghebru and Stein Holden