Working Paper
Are we measuring natural resource wealth correctly?
Underlying the management of revenues from natural resource extraction is a set of assumptions about how abundant and how valuable these resources are. Nevertheless, existing approaches to measuring the value of extractive resources are seriously...
Blog
Rethinking African debt and exploitation of natural resources
by
Michael Danquah, Albert Kwame Osei-Owusu, Edgar Towa
March 2023
In Africa, there is a distressing correlation between debt and the need to export raw materials. A new paradigm is needed in which African countries...
Working Paper
Growth and inequality convergence: the role of environmentally related impacts on human capital
We examine inequality convergence over the past three decades and ask if environmentally related impacts on health, and their effect on human capital, are responsible for the slow rate of inequality reduction in countries. Though higher initial...
Working Paper
Unravelling Africa’s raw material footprints and their drivers
This paper applies an environmentally extended input–output analysis, leveraging the Eora database, to estimate the global raw material footprints of 51 African nations from 1995 to 2015. It employs least absolute shrinkage and selection operator and...