Journal of African Economies

1992 - 2025

Current editor(s): Francis Teal

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2014, volume 23, articles suppl_2

Preface pp. ii1-ii3

Witness Simbanegavi

The Economic Impacts of Climate Change on Agriculture in Africa pp. ii17-ii49

John Asafu-Adjaye

Climate Change and Economic Development in Africa: An Overview pp. ii4-ii16

Witness Simbanegavi and Channing Arndt

Economic Costs of Climate Change and Climate Finance with a Focus on Africa pp. ii50-ii82

Alemu Mekonnen

Climate Change and Economic Growth Prospects for Malawi: An Uncertainty Approach pp. ii83-ii107

Channing Arndt, Adam Schlosser, Kenneth Strzepek and James Thurlow

2014, volume 23, articles suppl_1

Gender and Economic Development in Africa: An Overview pp. i4-i17

Damiano K. Manda and Samuel Mwakubo

Gender, Development and Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. i18-i61

Stephanie Seguino and Maureen Were

Collecting Sex Disaggregated Data to Improve Development Policies pp. i62-i86

Cheryl Doss

Gender and Economic Empowerment in Africa: Evidence and Policy pp. i87-i127

Naomi Netsayi Wekwete

The Care Economy in Africa: Subsistence Production and Unpaid Care pp. i128-i156

Nancy Folbre

2014, volume 23, articles 5

Editor's choice SME Finance in Africa pp. 583-613

Thorsten Beck and Robert Cull

The African Financial Development and Financial Inclusion Gaps pp. 614-642

Franklin Allen, Elena Carletti, Robert Cull, Jun ‘QJ’ Qian, Lemma Senbet and Patricio Valenzuela

Can Your Child Read and Count? Measuring Learning Outcomes in East Africa pp. 643-672

Sam Jones, Youdi Schipper, Sara Ruto and Rakesh Rajani

Positional Concerns among the Poor: Does Reference Group Matter? Evidence from Survey Experiments pp. 673-699

Alpaslan Akay, Lisa Andersson, Peter Martinsson and Haileselassie Medhin

2014, volume 23, articles 4

Editor's choice Assessing the Price-Raising Effect of Non-Tariff Measures in Africa pp. 425-463

Olivier Cadot and Julien Gourdon

Weather and Child Health in Rural Nigeria pp. 464-492

Mariano Rabassa, Emmanuel Skoufias and Hanan Jacoby

Causes and Implications of Credit Rationing in Rural Ethiopia: The Importance of Zonal Variation pp. 493-527

Daniel Ayalew Ali and Klaus Deininger

Subjective Wealth and Satisfaction with Policy Reform: Evidence from the Cotton Reform Experience in Burkina Faso pp. 528-581

Jonathan Kaminski

2014, volume 23, articles 3

Editor's choice Regional Agreements and Welfare in the South: When Scale Economies in Transport Matter pp. 321-345

Celine Carrere

Out-of-Sample Performance of the Macroeconomic Balance Approach to the Real Exchange Rate in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 346-360

Valerie Cerra and Sweta Saxena

The Crowding-in Effect of Simple Unconditional Central Grants on Local Own-Source Revenue: The Case of Benin pp. 361-387

Emilie Caldeira and Grégoire Rota-Graziosi

Measuring and Mending Monetary Policy Effectiveness under Capital Account Restrictions: Lessons from Mauritania pp. 388-422

Robert Blotevogel

2014, volume 23, articles 2

Editor's choice Aspirations: An Approach to Measurement with Validation Using Ethiopian Data pp. 189-224

Tanguy Bernard and Alemayehu Taffesse

Inter-temporal Changes in Well-being During Conditions of Hyperinflation: Evidence from Zimbabwe pp. 225-256

Catherine Larochelle, Jeffrey Alwang and Nelson Taruvinga

Openness, Investment and Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 257-289

Hector Sala and Pedro Trivin

Tourism and the 2010 World Cup: Lessons for Developing Countries pp. 290-320

Thomas Peeters, Victor Matheson and Stefan Szymanski

2014, volume 23, articles 1

Editor's choice Impact of Qualified Worker Emigration on Poverty: A Macro–Micro-Simulation Approach for an African Economy pp. 1-52

Calvin Z. Djiofack, Eric W. Djimeu and Matthieu Boussichas

HIV/AIDS and Fatalism: Should Prevention Campaigns Disclose the Transmission Rate of HIV? pp. 53-104

Olivier Sterck

Intra-household Efficiency: An Experimental Study from Ethiopia pp. 105-150

Bereket Kebede, Marcela Tarazona, Alistair Munro and Arjan Verschoor

Regional Variation in Risk and Time Preferences: Evidence from a Large-scale Field Experiment in Rural Uganda pp. 151-187

Yuki Tanaka and Alistair Munro

2013, volume 22, articles suppl_2

Institutions and Service Delivery in Africa: An Overview pp. -ii15

Damiano K. Manda and Samuel Mwakubo

Policies and Institutions for Effective Service Delivery: The Need of a Microeconomic and Micropolitical Approach pp. -ii38

Tessa Bold and Jakob Svensson

Public and Private Provision of Education in Kenya pp. -ii56

Tessa Bold, Mwangi Kimenyi and Justin Sandefur

Public Investment in Rural Infrastructure: Some Political Economy Considerations pp. -ii83

Moussa Blimpo, Robin Harding and Leonard Wantchekon

2013, volume 22, articles suppl_1

Sustaining High Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: Knowledge and the Structure of the Economy pp. -i101

Yaw Nyarko

Revisiting the Growth, Inequality and Poverty Nexus: An Overview pp. -i14

Damiano Kulundu Manda

Preface pp. -i3

William Lyakurwa

The Interrelationship Linking Growth, Inequality and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. -i48

Erik Thorbecke

Growth and Poverty Reduction in Africa in the Last Two Decades: Evidence from an AERC Growth-Poverty Project and Beyond pp. -i76

Andy McKay

2013, volume 22, articles 5

The Dynamics of Job Creation and Job Destruction in an African Economy: Evidence from Ethiopia-super- † pp. 651-692

Admasu Shiferaw and Arjun Bedi

Determinants of Schooling: Empirical Evidence from Rural Ethiopia pp. 693-731

Subha Mani, John Hoddinott and John Strauss

De Jure versus De Facto Exchange Rate Regimes in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 732-756

Slavi Slavov

Accounting for Heterogeneity in Growth Incidence in Cameroon Using Recentered Influence Function Regression pp. 757-795

B. Essama-Nssah, Saumik Paul and Léandre Bassolé

Should I Stay or Should I Go? The Role of Roads in Migration Decisions pp. 796-826

Marie Castaing Gachassin

The Gender Wage Gap in Post-Apartheid South Africa: A Re-examination pp. 827-848

Haroon Bhorat and Sumayya Goga

2013, volume 22, articles 4

Institutions and African Economies: An Overview pp. 491-498

Augustin Fosu

The New Institutionalism and Africa pp. 499-522

Robert Bates, Steven Block, Ghada Fayad and Anke Hoeffler

Growth of African Economies: Productivity, Policy Syndromes and the Importance of Institutions pp. 523-551

Augustin Fosu

Resource Rents, Democracy, Corruption and Conflict: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 552-569

Rabah Arezki and Thorvaldur Gylfason

Addressing the Natural Resource Curse: An Illustration from Nigeria pp. 570-615

Xavier Sala-i-Martin and Arvind Subramanian

Institutions and Job Growth in African Manufacturing: Does Employment Protection Regulation Matter? pp. 616-650

Louise Fox and Ana Maria Oviedo

2013, volume 22, articles 3

Determinants of Black Women's Labour Force Participation in Post-Apartheid South Africa pp. 347-374

Miracle Ntuli and Martin Wittenberg

Enrolment and Grade Attainment following the Introduction of Free Primary Education in Tanzania pp. 375-393

Johannes Hoogeveen and Mariacristina Rossi

Manipulating the Rural Landscape: Villagisation and Income Generation in Rwanda pp. 394-436

Ann-Sofie Isaksson

Diversity and the Distribution of Public Goods in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 437-462

Ken Jackson

Impact of Parental Death in Middle Childhood and Adolescence on Child Outcomes pp. 463-490

Rozana Himaz

2013, volume 22, articles 2

Race, Poverty and Deprivation in South Africa pp. 187-238

Carlos Gradín

Inflation Dynamics in the CEMAC Region pp. 239-275

Carlos Caceres, Marcos Poplawski-Ribeiro and Darlena Tartari

Child Labour and Schooling Responses to Production and Health Shocks in Northern Mali-super- † pp. 276-299

Andrew Dillon

Facing Misfortune: Expenditures on Magico-Religious Powers for Cure and Protection in Benin pp. 300-322

Philippe LeMay-Boucher, Joël Noret and Vincent Somville

Trade, Institutions, Income and Human Development in African Countries pp. 323-345

Mina Baliamoune and Sylvain H. Boko

2013, volume 22, articles 1

Aid and Dutch Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 1-21

David Fielding and Fred Gibson

Why Is Agricultural Trade within ECOWAS So High? pp. 22-51

Lassana Cissokho, Jonathan Haughton, Kossi Makpayo and Abdoulaye Seck

Teachers' Engagement at Work in a Developing Country-super- † pp. 52-72

Gérard Lassibille

Intergenerational Transmission of Self-Employed Status in the Informal Sector: A Constrained Choice or Better Income Prospects? Evidence from Seven West African Countries pp. 73-111

Laure Pasquier-Doumer

How Efficient Are the Ethiopian Microfinance Institutions in Extending Financial Services to the Poor? A Comparison with the Commercial Banks pp. 112-135

Hundanol Kebede and Wassie Berhanu

Trusting Neighbours or Strangers in a Racially Divided Society: Insights from Survey Data in South Africa pp. 136-162

Dorrit Posel and Timothy Hinks

The Determinants of Health Care Utilisation in Rural Senegal pp. 163-186

Aurélia Lépine and Alexis Le Nestour