Africa

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WORKING PAPERS
If You Build It, Will They Consume? Key Challenges for Universal, Reliable, and Low-Cost Electricity Delivery in Kenya - Working Paper 491
Jay Taneja
July 25, 2018
Kenya’s rapid electrification in the past decade has improved the lives of millions, but significant challenges remain. This paper provides analysis that shows electrification can be improved by considering cheaper options that still meet the needs of low consumers and that low consumption is ...
Blog Post
Don’t Be Fooled by Zimbabwe’s Big Election Day Charade
Todd Moss
July 25, 2018
On July 30, Zimbabweans will vote for the first time ever without Robert Mugabe on the ballot. Even before election day, there are very serious concerns about the validity of the vote. Vanguard Africa’s Jeffrey Smith and I wrote in the Mail & Guardian about eight reasons to ...
Blog Post
To Change Africa’s Path, We Need to Support Rural Girls from Day One
Joyce Banda
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Caroline Lambert
June 12, 2018
“This child is going to be a leader.” This is what a friend of my father said when I was eight years old. As I recount in a new book—From Day One: Why Supporting Girls Aged 0 to 10 Is Critical to Change Africa’s Path—many African girls are not that lucky. 
BOOKS
From Day One: Why Supporting Girls Aged 0 to 10 Is Critical to Change Africa’s Path
Joyce Banda
and
Caroline Lambert
June 12, 2018
As an African woman leader who grew up on African soil, Joyce Banda has seen firsthand how young rural girls face obstacles that shape the rest of their lives. From Day One makes the case of how, if African girls are to realize their potential and become the leaders that their continent so badly nee...
WORKING PAPERS
Three Decades of Poverty Mobility in Nigeria: The Trapped, the Freed, and the Never Trapped - Working Paper 485
Zuhumnan Dapel
June 01, 2018
Individuals do escape poverty during periods of overall rise in the poverty rate; they also transit into poverty during periods of overall decline in the poverty rate. In this paper, I explore six sweeps of household surveys of Nigeria (1980–2010) in an attempt to address these concerns. In ad...
Blog Post
Global Health Security in the Trump Era: Time to Worry?
Jeremy Konyndyk
May 17, 2018
Is it time to ring the alarm bell on a declining US commitment to global health security? For most of the past year, I would have said no. But after the last few weeks, I’m starting to think so. And the simultaneous news of a new Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo underscores the sta...
Blog Post
Rethinking the Infrastructure Gap in the Poorest Countries
W. Gyude Moore
May 16, 2018
A recent blog post by Ricardo Hausmann caught my eye because it addresses issues that I’ll be focusing on during my visiting fellowship here at the Center for Global Development. Hausmann—a former Venezuelan minister of planning—discusses the difficulty of closing the infrastructure gap in...