Working Papers

Youth Employment and Dynamics in Rural Non-Farm Enterprises (RNFE) in Ethiopia ------------------------------------------------------ Rural Non-Farm Enterprise (RNFE) evolves overtime as households try to adjust their income portfolio to changing opportunities, to their capacities and challenges, including their experience to shocks. In many of the poor agrarian economies such as much of Africa, RNFE is a potential alternative to agriculture for stimulating rural income growth. Evidences suggest that over time the contribution of the rural non-farm sector…

Annual HESPI Report on IGAD Economies:- Macroeconomic Performance of IGAD Economies and the State of Digital Financial Services -------------------------------------------------------------------- The Inter-governmental Authority for Development (IGAD) regional economic community for the countries of the Horn of Africa (HoA) was hit by the COVID-19 pandemic in addition to the region’s recent and prevalent challenges of shocks such as conflict, recurrent drought/floods, environmental degradation and locust invasion. Thus, while many of the countries have registered strong and robust…

REGIONAL INTEGRATION AND POVERTY REDUCTION IN THE HORN OF AFRICA: The AfCFTA Perspective -------------------------------------------------------------------- African governments and their partner multilateral organizations including the World Bank and the African Development Bank recognized the imperative for an integrated and well-connected continent against the changing global landscape to fast-track industrialization and promote inclusive economic growth and development. For Africa, a vast continent of over 1.2  billion people, regional integration has considerable potential not only for  enhancing regional trade…