Political Institutions and Economic Growth in Africa

The purposes of this paper include (a) a review of the literature on the so-called African dummy; (b) an explication of the system GMM method of estimation, by which Hoeffler (2002) shows the Africa dummy to be an artifact of the application of inappropriate estimation techniques; and (c) an effort to employ this technique to measure the impact of political variables - measures of stability, regime type, and violence - on economic growth in Africa.

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Year of publication:	2003-03-01
Authors:	Nkurunziza, Janvier ; Bates, Robert H.
Institutions:	Department of Economics, Oxford University

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	Economics Series Working Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	Number WPS/2003-03
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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