The data we collect can have a male bias. Where are we going? To measuring the work that women do in low income nations. Evidence of Male Bias Ask someone in a developed economy about his or her job and the response relates…
If the first drone airport is built in Rwanda, they will have achieved a transportation infrastructure leap and eliminated the need for expensive roads.
A production possibilities graph can display the land, labor and capital underutilization that inadequate sanitation creates and indicate a constrained GDP.
African development continues to be constrained by problems with electricity generation and access to electricity that affect productivity and mobility.
Being water stressed means you are unusually vulnerable to a water shortage. Sort of like a household where one emergency can push it over the edge because it spends all it earns, so too with most water stressed nations. That one drought…
In Chimamanda Adichie’s Americanah, we meet Ifemelu and Obinze. Representative of Nigeria’s upper class, they are a part of a story that takes the reader to Princeton, Yale, Philadelphia, Baltimore and London but always with a home base in Nigeria.…
Last summer, President Obama announced a $7 billion Power Africa initiative that targets sub-Saharan Africa. Its goal is to create the infrastructure that will extend electricity to more than 20 million households. Partnering with 6 other nations, the US will…
In one of his farm journals, Thomas Jefferson displays the importance of the sun. Just because the length of the workday is determined by daylight, one half more wool was spun during July than in January . You can start…
With most people debating the validity of GDP statistics as a yardstick of well-being, I was surprised to hear a completely different conclusion in an econtalk podcast. Before even considering validity, for sub-Saharan Africa, one scholar suggests we should check…
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