Robust FDI Determinants in Sub-saharan African Countries

Determinants of Institutional Quality in Sub-Saharan African Countries

The Role of Exports, FDI and Imports in Development: New Evidence from Sub- Saharan African Countries

The disappointing economic performance of Sub-Saharan African (SSA) economies in the late 1980s prompted economic-wide policy reforms in the early 1990s. The primary objectives of these institutional and structural changes were to promote trade and export activities, enhance foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows, and ease foreign access to SSA markets particularly for large multinational ente...

Causal Links between Export, FDI and Output: Evidence from Sub-Saharan African Countries

Prevalence, distribution, and social determinants of tobacco use in 30 sub-Saharan African countries

BACKGROUND Although the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control prioritizes monitoring of tobacco use by population-based surveys, information about the prevalence and patterns of tobacco use in sub-Saharan Africa is limited. We provide country-level prevalence estimates for smoking and smokeless tobacco (SLT) use and assess their social determinants. METHODS We analyzed population-based data...

Grandmothers and Children’s Schooling in 33 sub- Saharan African Countries

An important debate in the anthropological literature concerns the benefits children in poor countries derive from the presence of a grandmother. The broadly held idea that grandmothers are beneficial for their grandchildren has been challenged by the finding that in a resource poor society (the Dogon in Mali) the presence of a grandmother could negatively affect the life chances of their grand...