The Policy Brief by Amma Panin aims to convince of the importance of the overlap between religion and policy in sub-Saharan Africa by highlighting recent advances in how economists study religion, with results that touch on institutions, beliefs and…
Read about the scale of the gender productivity gap in African countries and how finance constraints underpin this gap in the latest policy brief “Africa’s Female Entrepreneurs – Towards Funding Success” by Aoife Hanley, Holger Görg, Cecilia Hornok…
After successfully organizing the PhD workshop at the PEGNet online conference in March 2021, the Poverty Reduction, Equity and Growth Network decided to continue to support young researchers by creating an Early Career Mentoring Program. The program…
Read the latest PEGNet Policy Brief written by Lenis Saweda O. Liverpool-Tasie & Thomas Reardon to learn more about the impacts of the expansion of SMEs along Africa’s food supply chains on food and nutrition security.
With the advent of the African Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA), regional economic integration in Africa has captured international attention and raised high hopes. In the new book “Regional Integration, Trade and Industry in Africa”, the present…
The international research conference that is jointly organized by the German Development Institute (DIE) and the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW) on “Africa’s regional and global integration – Lessons from the past and implications for…
After the introductory keynote by Ibrahim Kasirye (EPRC), the workshop will continue with a panel discussion on “Regional development & long-term impacts of COVID-19” with Elizabeth Bryan (IFPRI), Isis Gaddis (World Bank), Francis Mwesigye (Uganda…
Despite being far from new, current global challenges like the climate crisis, rising inequalities, or the loss of biodiversity make the debates on the ‘limits to growth’ and on sustainable transitions more relevant than ever. At the same time,…
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