This article examines how corruption relates to a firm's decision to invest and the value of investment. We use data from the World Bank Enterprise Survey (WBES) of firms in Sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA)...

This book investigates youth employment programmes across nine African countries, providing important insights into the world’s youngest continent by population, in which 60% of people are aged under…

Marine plastic pollution, particularly from abandoned, lost, or discarded fishing gear (ALDFG), has become a pressing environmental and governance challenge in global fisheries. Ghost fishing, where…

ABSTRACT This article examines the determinants of agricultural productivity in the East African Community for the period 2000 to 2020. Panel data estimation methods were applied in the study. The…

Abstract Improving rural nutrition remains a pressing development challenge across sub-Saharan Africa, where agriculture dominates livelihoods but diets often lack diversity and essential nutrients…

Abstract An agent-based model (ABM) is developed to simulate the function of lease markets for surface water irrigation rights operating at the watershed scale. The ABM examines the effect of drought…

ABSTRACT CONTEXT: The introduction of quality-certified seed (QCS) in the informal farmer network-based seed systems, which have largely relied on informal signals of quality, represents a promising…

Abstract Millions of households in developing countries burn dung cakes made from common farmyard manure to fulfil their household energy needs. Localised studies investigate dung cake use and its…

Abstract We investigate the effects of law enforcement framing and social context on compliance with the law in a lab-in-field experiment. In particular, we examine the effects of framing a simple…