Climate change and variability poses a significant hindrance on agricultural productivity. The adverse effects are particularly concerning in many African countries that rely more on rainfed...

The energy sector is a crucial enabler to economic growth in many countries. Consequently, there are a number of private firms, governments and development partners who are heavily investing huge...

Climate variability and the rise in incidences of pests and diseases continue to undermine production of high value vegetables among smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa. In order to respond to...

The major aim of this study is to investigate the impact of foreign aid on Uganda’s economic growth for the period 1980 - 2012 using secondary time series obtained from World Bank (2014) development...

The implementation of EAC treaty required the formation of Custom Union as the first step of EAC regional integration process and charging a common tariff on goods from non-member states (EAC, 2012)...

Abstract Motivated by the persistent rise in bilateral trade imbalance in Nigeria, this paper empirically examines whether Nigeria’s four trading partners (China, India, the UK and the US) respond…

Achieving energy literacy is now considered both a necessary and sufficient condition to ensure strict adherence to energy conservation/efficiency programs. While the existing literature has…

This study contributes to the literature on whether financial development stimulates technical energy efficiency (TEE) or not, by addressing core biases that creep into the relationship and thereby…

The Sustainable Development Goal 7 seeks universal access to energy, substantial increase in the share of renewable energy and doubling of energy efficiency efforts. The success of these targets most…

The literature on the impact of electricity access are generally inconclusive. Potential causes include geographical differences, limited external validity (due to the focus on small-scale projects)…