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Military Spending and Crowding-Out Effects: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:imf:imfwpa:2026/069&r=&r=afr
Published: April 10, 2026 00:00
This paper quantifies the effects of increases in military expenditures on education and health spending using local projections and different strategies to identify exogenous changes in military spending based on data for 33 sub-Saharan African (SSA)…
Beyond the Algorithm: Artificial intelligence, clinical decision-making, and the moral ecology of care in Africa
https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:osf:socarx:5r37j_v1&r=&r=afr
Published: April 8, 2026 00:00
Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly promoted as a tool to enhance clinical decision-making and thus, improve quality of healthcare. While much of the emerging scholarship on AI and healthcare in Africa has focused broadly on opportunities and…
Climate finance and the legitimacy machine: insights from the Green Climate Fund in South Africa
https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ehl:lserod:137480&r=&r=afr
Published: March 26, 2026 00:00
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) is the principal multilateral mechanism for channelling climate finance to developing countries. This paper examines the processes through which GCF projects are developed, opening the ‘black box’ of project development to…
When Crisis Meets Discrimination: Difference-in-Differences Evidence on Racial Wage Penalties in Post-COVID South Africa
https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:osf:socarx:8xrjc_v1&r=&r=afr
Published: March 20, 2026 00:00
South Africa entered the COVID-19 pandemic with one of the world's most unequal labor markets, where racial stratification shaped not only employment access but the distribution of wages within employment. This paper estimates the differential effect of…
Caisse de dépôt: A Key Lever to Finance Development in Africa
https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-05524903&r=&r=afr
Published: February 23, 2026 00:00
Africa faces a major financial challenge: to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and finance its demographic, ecological, and digital transitions, the continent must close a financing gap estimated at several hundred billion dollars per year.…
Measuring Natural Interest Rate in Morocco
https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:gii:giihei:heidwp01-2026&r=&r=afr
Published: February 5, 2026 00:00
This paper estimates Morocco's natural interest rate (NIR) using two approaches: a standard HLW-type framework and an augmented specification that incorporates external factors, namely imported inflation, and movements in the real effective exchange rate.…
Unveiling Hidden Hardships: Leveraging Alternative Data to Map Multidimensional Vulnerability in the Central African Republic
https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:cdiwps:hal-05480258&r=&r=afr
Published: January 27, 2026 00:00
In fragile states such as the Central African Republic, where conflict and institutional fragility severely constrain traditional data collection, mapping multidimensional vulnerability and potential deprivation poses a significant challenge for designing…
African Trade and Investment for Global Resilience : The Mattei Lecture at the World Bank’s 2025 Africa Growth and Opportunity—Research in Action (AGORA) Conference
https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wbk:wbrwps:11295&r=&r=afr
Published: January 13, 2026 00:00
This paper, based on the Mattei Lecture that the author delivered at the 2025 Africa Growth and Opportunity–Research in Action Conference, argues that Africa can anchor a new model of growth—and bolster global resilience—by shifting from commodity…