Most Viewed Articles in the Journal of African Economies in 2025

Top 10 articles read online this year (in order with no.1 being accessed the most). Most of the articles are open access:
 

1. Education in Africa: What Are We Learning?
Authors: David Evans, Amina Mendez Acosta
Volume 30, Issue 01, January 2021, open access
https://lnkd.in/ecnS9Mji

 

2. Increasing Tax Collection in African Countries: The Role of Information Technology
Authors: Oyebola Olabisi Okunogbe, Fabrizio Santoro
Volume 32, Issue Supplement 01, March 2023, open access
https://lnkd.in/ehgjMWFV

 

3. The Political Economy of Economic Policy Advice
Author: Stefan Dercon
Volume 33, Issue Supplement 02, December 2024, open access
 https://lnkd.in/e2TTMVsS

 

4. Effect of Foreign Direct Investment on Industrialisation: The Case of China in Africa
Authors: Ding Chen, Aliyu Buhari Isah, Umar Muhammad Gummi
Volume 34, Issue 01, January 2025, open access
https://lnkd.in/e3zGQ73g

 

5. Debt Distress and Climate-Resilient Development in sub-Saharan Africa
Authors: Kevin P Gallagher, Luma Ramos, PhD, Anzetse Were, Marina Zucker-Marques
Volume 33, Issue Supplement 02, December 2024, open access
https://lnkd.in/eetPRBNQ

 

6. Reducing Wait Times at Customs to Boost Trade: How Implementing the Trade Facilitation Agreement Can Expand Trade among AfCFTA Countries?
Authors: Jaime de Melo, Zakaria Sorgho, Laurent Wagner
Volume 34, Issue 02, March 2025, open access
https://lnkd.in/diRrUytv

 

7. Sources of Slow Growth in African Economies
Authors: Jeffrey D. Sachs, Andrew M. Warner
Volume 06, Issue 03, October 1997
https://lnkd.in/eyzHTGb3

 

 

8. Structural Change, Productivity Growth and Labour Market Turbulence in sub-Saharan Africa
Authors: Emmanuel Buadi Mensah, Solomon Owusu, Neil Foster-McGregor, Adam Szirmai
Volume 32, Issue 03, June 2023, open access
https://lnkd.in/eBf_jagH

 

9. From Food Subsidies to Cash Transfers: Assessing Economy-Wide Benefits and Trade-Offs in Egypt
Authors: Clemens Breisinger, Yumna Kassim, Sikandra Kurdi, Josee (IFPRI) Randriamamonjy, James Thurlow
Volume 33, Issue 02, March 2024, open access
https://lnkd.in/eGnmixEm

 

10. Asymmetric Response of Poverty to Growth and Inequality in South Africa: Implications for Current and Future Shocks
Author: Nicholas Ngepah
Volume 32, Issue Supplement 01, December 2024, open access
https://lnkd.in/ercSH3pu

 

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