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What do we (not) know about the benefits of...Household electrification has recently become a controversial topic. When The Economist declared that “electricity does not change poor lives as much as was thought,” a...
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The Chinese are here: An analysis of import...In the early 1990s, most of the imports into Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) originated mainly from Western economies such as the US, UK, France, and Germany. 25 years later, the...
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Informal workers and taxation in Zambia: Who pays...Taxation in Africa has been increasingly covered in the news, especially with controversial attempts in countries such as Benin, Tanzania, and Uganda to tax users of social...
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The relationship between influential actors’...This background study is published by the LSE-Oxford Commission on State Fragility, Growth and Development.
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