1960 to 2010 and dynamic panel data analysis, we find a significant and negative relationship between income and democracy … exogenous and endogenous democracy. The former explains whether external factors, such as the end of the Cold War, as well as … regional influence, play a role in the process of democratisation in sub-Saharan Africa. Results indicate that the end of the …

because democracy is in its infancy in the continent and to make it work is an aim in itself in Africa, and also because …In this paper I investigate whether democracy in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) has had any effect … Variables, eg the end of the cold war is one of the contemporaneous external sources of variation to democracy, to deal with …

considers the impact of famine on aggregate adolescent human capital formation in Sub-Saharan Africa. We parameterize a joint … associated with famine in Sub-Saharan Africa have large negative effects on the acquisition of human capital by adolescents and … on long-run material living standards. Our findings also suggest that policy makers in Sub-Saharan Africa should …

whether democracy needs development for its own consolidation. We use a sample of all nine countries that re-democratised in … that income, or development in general, plays a positive role in "sustaining" democracy. Moreover, the exogenous version of … relatively poorer and democracy a rather elusive concept in the region. We also test for the critical junctures hypothesis, or …

GASI consists of nine main indexes: (i) economic sustainability, (ii) democracy and freedom, (iii) child well-being, (iv …

This paper seeks to offer an economic explanation for the emergence of democracy in societies with high income … inequality and narrow middle-class such as Apartheid South Africa. The presence of a credible threat of capital flight is shown … to render democracy less unpleasant to the elites by making future tax concessions possible. However, inequality should …

uniÂ…ed growth theory— they suggest that southern Africa is experiencing its own transition from the Malthusian regime …

since the return of democracy in 1999. I show that states in Southern Nigeria have grown faster on average than states in … using OLS I estimate a relationship between change in night lights and real GDP growth in Africa. I then use the …

choose their locations for RHQs in Africa are linked to the advantages of agglomeration and the accompanying economies of …