Economic Transformation for Poverty Reduction in Africa

Almas Heshmati is Professor of Economics at Sogang University, South Korea, and at Jönköping International Business School, Jönköping University, Sweden.

• 1. Introduction to Economic Transformation for Poverty Reduction in Africa (Almas HESHMATI) Part A: Climate, Energy and Food Security 2. Impact of Weather Variations on Cereal Productivity and the Influence of Agro-Ecological Differences in Ethiopian Cereal Production (Oumer BERISSO Metaksa) 3. Vulnerability and Impact Assessment of Climate Change on East African Wildlife Tourism: A Study of Maasai Mara Ecosystem (Richard Kerongo MOSE) 4. Multidimensional Measure of Household Energy Poverty and its Determinants in Ethiopia (Mekonnen BERSISA) 5. Household Food Security and School Enrolment: Evidence from Malawi (Sunyoung LEE) 6. Analysis of Poverty and its Determinants in Rwanda (Masoomeh RASHIDGHALAM) Part B: Taxes, Trade Openness and Capital 7. Assessing the Revenue Implications of Indirect Tax Reforms in Rwanda (Etienne NDEMEZO and Francis MENJO-BAYE) 8. Differential Impact of Trade Liberalization and Rural-Urban Income Inequalities on Poverty in African Countries (Kahsay BERHANE) 9. Effects of Capital Flight on Growth and Poverty Reduction in Ethiopia: Evidence from a Simulation Based Analysis (Alemayehu GEDA and Addis YIMER) Part C: Employment, Gender Wage Differentials and Start-ups 10. Employment and Incidence of Poverty in Urban Ethiopia (Martha K. MELESE) 11. Impact of Gender Wage Differentials on Poverty and Inequalities in Cameroon (Pierre M. NGUETSE-TEGOUM and Justin BEM) 12. Econometric Analysis of Business Start-ups in Rwanda (Joseph NDAGIJIMANA, Tharcisse NZASINGIZIMANA and Almas HESHMATI) Part D: Diversity, Conflicts and Hazardous Factors 13. A Within-Country Study of Conflict and Poverty in Nigeria (Chinasa I. IKELU) 14. The Cost of Motorcycle Accidents in Uganda (Richard SEBAGGALA, Fred MATOVU, Dan AYEBALE, Vincent KISENYI and Messarck KATUSIIMEH)