Reports

For most reports in the Series, parts of the text can be browsed online, and the full report can be downloaded as a PDF (Portable Document Format) file. PDF files may be viewed using Adobe Acrobat Reader, available for free by downloading from Adobe's web-site.
2011
2008

  • REP/2008-01: full report, pdf (474kB)
    Emmanuel Opoku, Richman Dzene, Stefano Caria, Francis Teal and Andrew Zeitlin. Improving productivity through group lending: Report on the Impact Evaluation of the Cocoa Abrabopa Initiative.

2003

  • REP/2003-01: full report, pdf (465kB)
    Abigail Barr, Marcel Fafchamps, and Trudy Owens, Non-governmental organizations in Uganda - A report to the Government of Uganda.

2002

  • REP/2002-05: full report, pdf (482kB)
    Neil Rankin, Måns Söderbom and Francis Teal. The Ghanaian Manufacturing Enterprise Survey 2000.

  • REP/2002-04: full report, pdf (380kB)
    Alan Harding, Måns Söderbom and Francis Teal. The Tanzanian Manufacturing Enterprise Survey 2002.

  • The Tanzanian Household Budget Survey (CSAE contact: Trudy Owens) conducted in 2000/01 by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), is the largest-ever household budget survey in Tanzania and one of the largest in Africa. It covered more than 22,000 households across all 20 regions of the Tanzanian Mainland. Information was collected for both urban and rural areas.

  • REP/2002-03: full report, pdf (327kB)
    Alan Harding, Godius Kahyarara and Neil Rankin. Firm Growth, Productivity and Earnings in Tanzanian Manufacturing 1992-1999.

  • REP/2002-02: full report, pdf (559kB)
    Carolyn Jenkins and Lynne Thomas. Foreign Direct Investment in Southern Africa: Determinants, Characteristics and Implications for Economic Growth and Poverty Alleviation.

  • REP/2002-01: full report, pdf (967KB)
    Måns Söderbom and Francis Teal. The Performance of Nigerian Manufacturing Firms: Report on the Nigerian Manufacturing Enterprise Survey 2001

2001

  • REP/2001-06: full report, pdf (694KB)
    Marcel Fafchamps, Francis Teal, and John Toye. Towards a Growth Strategy for Africa

  • REP/2001-05: full report, pdf (113KB)
    John Muellbauer and Janine Aron. New Monetary Policy Challenges for Sustainable Growth in South Africa

  • REP/2001-04: full report, pdf (467KB)
    Marcel Fafchamps and Eleni Gabre-Madhin. Agricultural Markets in Benin and Malawi: Operation and Performance of Traders

  • REP/2001-03: full report, pdf (614KB)
    Måns Söderbom. Constraints and Opportunities in Kenyan Manufacturing: Report on the Kenyan Manufacturing Enterprise Survey 2000

  • REP/2001-02: full report, pdf (829KB)
    Charles Harvey, Carolyn Jenkins, and Lynne Thomas, with Pelotshweu Moepeng and Montle Peloentle. The Prerequisites for Progress Towards a Single Currency in the Common Market of Eastern and Southern Africa - Medium to Long-term Perspective Study.

  • REP/2001-01: contents | full report, pdf (140KB)
    Stefan Dercon and Pramila Krishnan. Poverty and survival strategies in Ethiopia during economic reform.

2000
1999
1998

 

1997
1993

  • REP/93-1: Contents and Summary | full report, pdf (5MB)
    A Baah-Nuakoh, F Teal. Economic reform and the manufacturing sector in Ghana, Report on Africa Regional Program on Enterprise Development, The World Bank, 1993

1991

  • REP/91-1: full report, pdf (1.85MB)
    S. Appleton, D.L. Bevan, K. Burger, P. Collier, J.W. Gunning, L. Haddad, J. Hoddinott. Public Services and Household Allocation in Africa: How Much Does Gender Matter? Final Report to Women in Development Division, World Bank, Washington D.C., 1991.

    Contents:

    • Chapter 1:  Does Gender Matter in Africa?
    • Part I:         Public Services
    • Chapter 2:  Education
    • Chapter 3:  Health
    • Chapter 4:  Water Supply, Extension and Credit
    • Part II:        Income and Expenditure
    • Chapter 5:  Women and the Labour Market
    • Chapter 6:  Gender Issues in African Agriculture
    • Chapter 7:Gender Aspects of Household Expenditures and Resource Allocation in the Cote d'Ivoire
    • References