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Social Protection and Employment in Africa

Unemployment Insurance and Employment Policies

  1. "How can governments fund unemployment insurance in low-income settings?" Edited by Ahmadou Aly Mbaye, Abdoulaye Ndiaye, Kyle Herkenhoff, Abdoulaye Cisse, Alessandro Dell'Acqua, 2024. URL: [VoxDev](https://voxdev.org/topic/social-protection/how-can-governments-fund-unemployment-insurance-low-income-settings)
  2. "Financing unemployment insurance in high-informality economies: A survey analysis of Senegal," by Ahmadou Aly Mbaye, Abdoulaye Ndiaye, Kyle Herkenhoff, Abdoulaye Cisse, Alessandro Dell'Acqua, 2023. URL: [Brookings](https://www.brookings.edu/articles/financing-unemployment-insurance-in-high-informality-economies-a-survey-analysis-of-senegal/)
  3. "Obstacles to the creation of decent jobs and employment policies in Africa," with Fatou Gueye, 2018, Revue Afrique Contemporaine, issue 266. URL: https://shs.cairn.info/revue-afrique-contemporaine1-2018-2-page-156?lang=fr&tab=texte-integral
  4. "Labor Market and Jobs in West Africa," Ahmadou Aly Mbaye & Fatou Gueye, 2018, Working Paper Series. URL: https://www.afdb.org/fileadmin/uploads/afdb/Documents/Publications/WPS_No_297_Labor_Markets_and_Jobs_in_West_Africa_B._docx.pdf

Youth Employment and Informal Sector Dynamics

  1. "Employment creation potential, labor skills requirements, and skill gaps for young people: A Senegal case study," by Ahmadou Aly Mbaye, et al., 2021. URL: [Brookings](https://www.brookings.edu/articles/employment-creation-potential-labor-skills-requirements-and-skill-gaps-for-young-people-a-senegal-case-study/)
  2. "Job creation for youth in Africa: Assessing the employment intensity of industries without smokestacks," by Ahmadou Aly Mbaye, Brahima Sangafowa Coulibaly, Dhruv Gandhi, 2019. URL: [Brookings](https://www.brookings.edu/articles/job-creation-for-youth-in-africa-assessing-the-employment-intensity-of-industries-without-smokestacks/)
  3. « Opportunity or necessity? Youth agripreneurs in Benin, Ethiopia and Senegal » by Zaneta Kubik, Tigabu D. Getahun, Patrice Y. Adegbola, Assane Beye and Ahmadou Aly Mbaye, 2024. URL: [ZEF] (https://lapd.ucad.sn/fr/kubik-z-getahun-t-d-adegbola-p-y-beye-mbaye-2024-opportunity-or-necessity-youth-agripreneurs-benin)

Climate change and environmental sustainability

Climate action and adaptation in Africa

  1. "Renewing global climate change action for fragile and developing countries," by Ahmadou Aly Mbaye, Landry Signé, 2022. URL: [Brookings](https://www.brookings.edu/articles/renewing-global-climate-change-action-for-fragile-and-developing-countries/)
  2. "Climate Change, development, and conflict-fragility nexus in the Sahel," by Ahmadou Aly Mbaye, Landry Signé, 2022. URL: [Brookings](https://www.brookings.edu/articles/climate-change-development-and-conflict-fragility-nexus-in-the-sahel/)
  3. "Climate Change and Food Security in West Africa," edited by Ahmadou Aly Mbaye, Joachim von Braun, et al., 2021. URL: [WASCAL](https://wascal.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/WASCAL-PUBLICATION-BOOK-ON-CLIMATE-CHANGE-AND-FOOD-SECURITY-IN-WEST-AFRICA-2.pdf
  4. "Assessing the Impacts of Climate Shocks on Farm Performance and Adaptation Responses in Africa," by Ahmadou Aly Mbaye, B. Lokonon, Natural Resources Forum Journal. URL: https://wascal.ucad.sn/sites/default/files/files/5%20Lokonon%20et%20al%202015.pdf

Economic growth and development in Africa

Informality and Sector Studies

  1. "The Informal Sector in Francophone Africa: The other side of weak structural transformation," by Ahmadou Aly Mbaye, Nancy Benjamin, 2020. URL: [Brookings](https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-informal-sector-in-francophone-africa-the-other-side-of-weak-structural-transformation/)
  2. "Formal and Informal Enterprises in Francophone Africa: Moving Toward a Vibrant Private Sector," edited by Ahmadou Aly Mbaye, Stephen S. Golub, Fatou Gueye, 2020. URL: [IDRC](https://idrc-crdi.ca/en/book/formal-and-informal-enterprises-francophone-africa-moving-toward-vibrant-private-sector
  3. "Removing impediments to export-led growth in Senegal: Groundnuts, fishing, textiles, fruits, and vegetables," by Ahmadou Aly Mbaye, Stephen Golub, 2020. URL: [Brookings](https://www.brookings.edu/articles/removing-impediments-to-export-led-growth-in-senegal-groundnuts-fishing-textiles-fruits-and-vegetables/)
  4. "The Competitiveness Challenge of the Informal Sector in Francophone Africa: Understanding the Role of the Informal Sector and the Business Environment," Ahmadou Aly Mbaye & Fatou Gueye, in Africa's Competitiveness in the Global Economy, 2018. URL: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-67014-0_2

Social and economic policy

Public policy and economic development

  1. "Improving the targeting of public policies for a strong, inclusive economy generating decent jobs in Africa," edited by Ahmadou Aly Mbaye, Birahim Boudarbat, 2024. URL: https://editions.ucad.sn/ouvrages/63
  2. "Policies, Prices, and Poverty: The Sugar, Vegetable Oil, and Flour Industries in Senegal," by Ahmadou Aly Mbaye, 2018, IMF eLIBRARY. URL: https://www.elibrary.imf.org/display/book/9781484303139/ch017.xml
  3. "Institutions, informality, and conflict in the Sahel: The case for Mali," by Ahmadou Aly Mbaye, Nancy Benjamin, 2022. URL: [Brookings](https://www.brookings.edu/articles/institutions-informality-and-conflict-in-the-sahel-the-case-for-mali/)
    "A Matter of Formality: Rethinking the Economy in the Sahel," by Ahmadou Aly Mbaye, Institut Montaigne, 2021. URL: [Institut Montaigne](https://www.institutmontaigne.org/en/expressions/matter-formality-rethinking-economy-sahel)