Documents et rapports
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Infrastructure Quality and FDI Inflows : Evidence from the Arrival of High-Speed Internet in Africa (anglais)
Does ambient infrastructural quality affect foreign direct investment (FDI) in developing countries? This paper investigates how the arrival of high-speed internet in Africa triggered FDI into the region...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 187519 Date du document: 10 août 2023 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Mensah,Justice Tei,Traore,Nouhoum-000531164
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Mobile Phones and Local Economic Development : A Global Evidence (anglais)
his paper presents global evidence on the impact of expansion in mobile telephony and broadband Internet services on economic development at the subnational level. Leveraging two decades of satellite data...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10526 Date du document: 24 juillet 2023 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Mensah,Justice Tei
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Energy Demand during a Pandemic: Evidence from Ghana and Rwanda (anglais)
The COVID-19 pandemic caused significant disruptions to economies around the world. In response to this, some developing countries offered reliefs such as electricity subsidies while others did not. How...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10330 Date du document: 28 février 2023 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Mensah,Justice Tei,Nsabimana,Aimable,Dzansi,James,Nshunguyinka,Alexandre
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Responses of the Electricity Sector in 120 Economies to the COVID-19 Pandemic (anglais)
This brief provides descriptive evidence of the operational and policy responses of the electricity sector in 120 economies to the early stages of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. In addition, to assess...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 173112 Date du document: 28 juin 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Saltane,Valentina,Ereshchenko,Viktoriya,Hovhannisyan,Shoghik,Mensah,Justice Tei
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Saving Lives through Technology : Mobile Phones and Infant Mortality (anglais)
Digital technologies can expand access to health services to underserved populations. This paper leverages mobile network expansion and survey data spanning two decades to study the impact of access to...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9978 Date du document: 21 mars 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Mensah,Justice Tei,Hirfrfot,Kibrom Tafere,Abay,Kibrom A.
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The Impact of Internet Access on Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Africa (anglais)
This paper investigates the effects of access to high-speed internet on innovation and entrepreneurship in Africa. The identification strategy exploits the staggered arrival of submarine internet cables...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9945 Date du document: 23 février 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Houngbonon,Georges Vivien,Mensah,Justice Tei,Traore,Nouhoum-000531164
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Infrastructure Quality and FDI Inflows : Evidence from the Arrival of High-Speed Internet in Africa (anglais)
Does ambient infrastructural quality affect foreign direct investment (FDI) in developing countries? This paper investigates how the arrival of high-speed Internet in Africa triggered FDI to the region...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9946 Date du document: 23 février 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Mensah,Justice Tei,Traore,Nouhoum-000531164
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Natural Resource Discoveries, Citizen Expectations and Household Decisions (anglais)
Major oil and gas discoveries are often associated with excitement and jubilation among citizens and government officials. But the extent to which discoveries substantially alter citizen expectations about...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9372 Date du document: 31 août 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Cust,James Frederick,Mensah,Justice Tei
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Jobs ! electricity shortages and unemployment in Africa (anglais)
To what extent does unreliable electricity provision pervasive in many African countries affect job creation in the region? This paper addresses the question by assembling household and firm level data...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8415 Date du document: 19 avril 2018 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Mensah,Justice Tei
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Electricity provision and tax mobilization in Africa (anglais)
This paper provides evidence on how the provision of social infrastructure, such as reliable electricity, can be leveraged to increase taxation in developing countries, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8408 Date du document: 16 avril 2018 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Blimpo,Moussa Pouguinimpo,Mensah,Justice Tei,Opalo,K. Ochieng’,Shi,Ruifan