Africa
Explore EDI's work in Africa
Resources
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Research
Follow the links below to jump to research projects in regions of Africa:
West Africa
- Benin Institutional Diagnostic
- Politician Entry, Selection and Performance in Sierra Leone
- Constructing Compliance: Reducing Tax Evasion Among Market Traders in Ghana (Ghana)
- Measuring the Effect of Technological Improvements and Compliance Nudges on Property Taxes (Senegal)
- Audit Selection under Weak Fiscal Capacity (Senegal)
- Performance-Based Incentives in Multi-Layered Organizations (Sierra Leone)
- Training for productivity: An experimental evaluation of civil service reform in Ghana
- Building a marketplace for professional business services in Nigeria
- Business-to-business information sharing and the foundations of reputational motives for contract compliance (Nigeria)
East Africa
- Tanzania Institutional Diagnostic
- Mozambique Institutional Diagnostic
- Recruitment, Effort, and Retention Effects of Performance Contracts for Civil Servants (Rwanda)
- Can Transparency Improve Preferences and Norms in the Public Sector? (Uganda)
- Access to Justice in Kenya’s Magistrates’ Courts (Kenya)
- The Political Economy and Governance of Rural Electrification (Kenya)
- Randomized Inspections and Information Campaigns (Tanzania)
- Relaxing Credit Constraints and Tenure Insecurity in Imperfect Markets (Uganda)
- Ownership changes, management and efficiency in the Rwanda coffee sector
- Female political representation and its impact in Uganda
- Land rights and village councils in Tanzania
- Quality, contracting, and competition in developing country supply chains (Ethiopia)
- Teacher rotation and student outcomes: Experiential evidence from Uganda
Central & South Africa
- Engaging Citizens to Address Company-Community Conflict and South African Mines (South Africa)
- Stock-based versus flow-based redistribution (Zimbabwe and South Africa)
- Individualization of property rights and population pressure (DRC)
- Social structures, political accountability, and effective public goods provision (DRC)
