Africa

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WORKING PAPERS
Will the Poor in Nigeria Escape Poverty in Their Lifetime? - Working Paper 483
Zuhumnan Dapel
April 27, 2018
Drawing on six sweeps of household surveys of Nigeria that together span 1980–2010 with a pooled sample size of about 97,000 households and data on Nigeria’s age-gender-specific life expectancy from the World Health Organization, this paper shows that about 72 percent to 91 percent of Ni...
Blog Post
Fighting Corruption is Dangerous, but Necessary
Masood Ahmed
April 26, 2018
CGD and Brookings recently co-hosted Former Finance Minister of Nigeria and Distinguished Fellow Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to discuss her new book, Fighting Corruption is Dangerous: The Story Behind the Headlines. The book is part memoir, part how-to, as she draws on her years of exper...
Blog Post
Cash Transfers Cure Poverty. Side-Effects Vary. Symptoms May Return When Treatment Stops.
Justin Sandefur
April 19, 2018
New results from a famous experiment in Kenya have sparked heated debate over whether lump-sum cash transfers have any long-term benefits for those who get them, or even do harm to neighbors who don’t.
BRIEFS
Tackling the Realities of Protracted Displacement: Case Studies on What’s Working and Where We Can Do Better
Cindy Huang et al.
April 17, 2018
The international community has come together in new ways to address forced displacement—one of the biggest challenges of the early twenty-first century.
Blog Post
Does Africa Have a Nuclear Power Future?
Todd Moss
April 16, 2018
Africa’s energy deficits are well known. But it’s very rare to hear policymakers talk openly about nuclear power on the continent.
POLICY PAPERS
Atoms for Africa: Is There a Future for Civil Nuclear Energy in Sub-Saharan Africa?
Abigail Sah et al.
April 16, 2018
This paper explores the feasibility of commercial nuclear power in sub-Saharan Africa, especially in light of advanced nuclear technologies and their potential to overcome some of the challenges to deployment.
WORKING PAPERS
Using Supervised Learning to Select Audit Targets in Performance-Based Financing in Health: An Example from Zambia - Working Paper 481
Dhruv Grover et al.
April 11, 2018
We examine alternative strategies for targeted sampling of health clinics for independent verification. Our results indicate that machine learning methods, particularly Random Forest, outperform other approaches and can increase the cost-effectiveness of verification activities.