The African Development Bank (AfDB)-Civil Society Committee was launched in May 2018, during the Civil Society Forum that took place in Abidjan, to advise and facilitate AfDB’s collaboration with Civil Society Organizations. The Committee serves as an advisory body that guides the African...

Despite significant progress in the past two decades, sub-Saharan African economies have lagged behind other regions on almost any real measure of macroeconomic performance. At the same time, sub-Saharan African countries dominate the top 50 percentile of rankings on almost all indicators of state...

This paper examines the poultry industry in Mozambique and makes recommendations about how to improve the value chain in two provinces—Niassa and Zambézia. Understanding the structure and challenges of the poultry value chain is important for the revitalization of the sector and identifying issues...

Due to multiple expected development benefits, attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) has been a key policy objective in many (developing) countries.1 Therefore, in order to attract FDI, governments have offered various incentives, including fiscal incentives (such as reduced corporate tax...

A positive correlation between the riskiness and returns of households’ asset portfolios and their initial asset endowments is often taken for granted in development economics, especially in settings where financial market failures are likely (Barrett et al. 2016). The relationship among risk,...

Despite a sharp decline in malaria cases, the mosquito transmitted diseases continue to affect millions of people in developing countries. In 2015, 214 million malaria cases were reported in 95 countries and an estimated 438,000 people died because of the disease (WHO, 2015). The malaria burden is...

Social solidarity networks have long been understood to play a central role in village economies. There can be both altruistic and self-interested drivers behind such networks' functioning (Ligon and Schechter (2012)). Although the possibility of altruism has been accommodated in some work within...

This publication provides monthly Consumer Price Indices of Somaliland composite which is based on two main market baskets of Hargeisa urban households and Hargeisa was further sampled into 124 outlets. However, the current Consumer Price Index was constructed the results of the 2012 Somaliland...

The Africa Climate Change Fund (ACCF) provides smallscale grants to African countries to support their transition towards climate resilient, low-carbon development. More specifically, it helps countries to implement small-scale pilot adaptation initiatives and scale up access to international...