effect on income. However, in Africa rugged terrain afforded protection to those being raided by slave traders. Since the … slave trade retarded subsequent economic development, in Africa ruggedness also has had a historical indirect positive … Africa the indirect positive effect dominates the direct negative effect. Looking within Africa, we provide evidence that the …

Africa’s recent growth performance has raised expectations of a bright economic future for the continent after decades … of decline. Yet there is a genuine question about whether Africa’s growth can be sustained, and if so, at what level. The …

potential impacts on the economy. We use evidence from 21 OECD countries over a twenty-year period to examine the impacts that …

This essay investigates the determinants of the growth performance of Africa. I start by illustrating a broader … institutional development. After reporting results from standard growth regressions, I analyze the role of Africa’s peculiar history … influence, in and out of Africa, of the slave trades. The essay ends with critical conclusions and suggestions for further …

Long-run trends in Africa’s well-being are provided on the basis of a new index of human development, alternative to … experienced in other developing regions. Within Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa has fallen steadily behind the North since mid-20th … century. Human development improvement is positively associated to being coastal and resource-rich and negatively to political-economy …

South Africa and variation in the intensity of this law to identify increases in wages for domestic workers and find no …

We explore the determinants of state fragility in sub-Saharan Africa. Controlling for a wide range of economic …