Despite the explosive growth in the number of people receiving disability beneÖts in South Africa, very little is known about the labour supply e§ects of the beneÖts. This study aims at estimating the impact of the Disability Grant Programme (DGP) on labour force participation. Consideration is...
Utilizing the 2007 and 2010 labor force surveys, this paper documents that very high youth unemployment is a key feature of the Swaziland labor market and analyzes policy options that could help address this challenge. First, the paper characterizes the Swazi labor market and its youth segment with...
16-Oct-2012
AEC 2012 - Family Ties Inheritance Rights and Successful Poverty Alleviation Evidence from Ghana
We are deeply grateful to Kofi Awusabo-Asare for coordinating our household survey and his numerous suggestions along the way. We are also grateful to the management of Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) Fund of Ghana for providing access to individual records; and the team of...
This paper sets out to evaluate the impact of human capital endowments on measured inequality using the 2007 Cameroon household consumption survey. In particular, the paper (1) estimates determinants of household economic well-being using the control function econometric approach in which human...
Most countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) have experienced a period of high economic growth beginning around the mid 1990s, leading to renewed optimism about the region’s development prospects.2 Furthermore, most countries in the region weathered the global economic crisis of 2008–2009 remarkably...
16-Oct-2012
AEC 2012 - Mutual Health Insurance and the Contribution to Improvements in Child Health in Rwanda
The mutual health insurance (Mutuelle de Santé) system in Rwanda is one of the most extensive community based health insurance schemes operated in Sub-Saharan Africa covering over 90 per cent of the population. Several studies, so far, have documented the success of the Mutuelle de Santé in...
16-Oct-2012
AEC 2012 - Pathways into and out of Poverty a Study of Rural Household Wealth Dynamics in Kenya
This study identifies the factors associated with smallholder farm households that have risen out of poverty or descended into poverty between 1997 and 2007 in Kenya. The study uses data from a nationwide balanced panel of 1,275 households and data from detailed retrospective ‘life history’ survey...
L’étude a porté sur la mise en évidence d’un effet positif des flux d’investissement chinois sur la croissance économique en Afrique au Sud du Sahara (ASS), suite au constant d’une forte progression de ces flux (allant jusqu'à un pic de + 88% en moyenne entre 2005-2007) et aux bons chiffres de la...
Land has been commonly considered an abundant resource in Sub-Saharan Africa. However, nationally representative farm surveys consistently paint a contrasting picture with the following empirical regularities: First, evidence shows that over the past 50 years there has been a gradual but steady...