Bank Regulation in the Selected Sub-Saharan African Countries: Dynamics and Trends

Fiscal Policy and Poverty Reduction in Some Selected Sub-Saharan Africa Countries

The equally uncharacterized nature of government role in Sub Saharan African (SSA) region on the issue of poverty reduction have surged the modest research of this study. The issue on poverty is a continuous cause and need remedies so much and fast. This study examined the effect of fiscal policy on poverty reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa from 1999 to 2016. Pool Mean Group (PMG) was employed to...

Grandmothers and Children’s Schooling in 33 sub- Saharan African Countries

An important debate in the anthropological literature concerns the benefits children in poor countries derive from the presence of a grandmother. The broadly held idea that grandmothers are beneficial for their grandchildren has been challenged by the finding that in a resource poor society (the Dogon in Mali) the presence of a grandmother could negatively affect the life chances of their grand...

Equity trends in ownership of insecticide-treated nets in 19 sub-Saharan African countries

OBJECTIVE To examine the change in equity of insecticide-treated net (ITN) ownership among 19 malaria-endemic countries in sub-Saharan Africa before and after the launch of the Cover The Bed Net Gap initiative. METHODS To assess change in equity in ownership of at least one ITN by households from different wealth quintiles, we used data from Demographic and Health Surveys and Malaria Indicato...

A Re-assessment of Fertility Trends in 17 Sub-saharan African Countries

Determinants of Institutional Quality in Sub-Saharan African Countries