essential for a country’s economic growth. Our hypothesis is that foreign-educated leaders attract more FDI to their country …

macroeconomic performance (that is, on per capita GDP growth). However, we find that dynamic ethnic fractionalization is negatively … related to growth (although this is still not the case for linguistic and religious fractionalization). These findings are …

ethnic fractionalization on economic growth across countries using unique time-varying measures. We first replicate the … finding of a weak effect of exogenous diversity on growth and then we show that accounting for how diversity changes over time … latitude), it shows a significant negative impact on economic growth which is robust to different specifications, polarization …

policymakers' beliefs about the impact of capital account liberalization on growth, under the 'Mundell's trilemma constraint. The … model, calibrated to data for Africa, Latin America and developing Asia, reflects relatively well capital account policies …

domestic economy, but it will also affect the international trading markets. In addition, it will affect the West Africa region …

In recent years, the private sector has been recognized as a key engine of Africa's economic development. Yet, the most … sector countries are concentrated in Western Africa (Cote d'Ivoire, Guinea, Niger, Senegal and Togo), Central Africa … (Cameroun, Republic of Congo) and Eastern Africa (Kenya, Sudan, Uganda and Tanzania), with the addition of Mauritius. Countries …

Africa. We find that cooperation is greater – production is more efficient – among co-wives than among husbands and wives …

Fertility has begun to fall in Sub-Saharan Africa but it remains high on average and particularly for a few countries …

The productivity of non-farm enterprises in rural Africa may be associated with the productivity of other spatially … the best of our knowledge, that the productivity of rural non-farm enterprises in Africa has been studied in this way. …