In the 3 years before the 2008 Financial Crisis, GDP growth in sub Saharan Africa (averaged over individual economies … small, portion of the elevated growth in sub Saharan Africa in the three years before the Financial Crisis and also in the …

driven mostly by global commodity prices. In order to better understand the determinants of export success in Africa we …

Trade between the whole of Africa and China (imports and exports summed) grew from $10.6 billion to $73.3 billion … between 2000 and 2007, and between Sub-Saharan Africa and China from $7 billion to $59 billion over the same period. China is … now Africa's third largest trading partner behind the EU and the US. The Chinese FDI stock in Africa has grown from $49 …

Africa. Crop agriculture has expanded considerably across the continent in recent years. Much of this expansion has occurred … on agricultural development projects across Africa from 1995-2014. We find that implementing agricultural projects in …

trends in mental health in Africa where there has been little prior work. We examine data from a number of surveys including … find little support for the proposition that the age structure of wellbeing in Africa has changed over the last decade … for this is the limited amount of internet access in Africa, especially for women. In countries like Burkina Faso and …

"Firms in Africa report "regulatory and economic policy uncertainty" as a top constraint to their growth. We argue that … often firms in Africa do not cope with policy rules, rather they face deals; firm-specific policy actions that can be … uncorrelated with ex-post firm-level responses, further evidence that deals rather than rules prevail in Africa. Strikingly, the …

The dismal growth performance of Africa is the worst economic tragedy of the XXth century. We document the evolution of … rates Africa would have enjoyed if these key determinants had taken OECD rather than African values. Expensive investment …

As Africa's role on the global stage is rising, so does the need to understand the shadow of history on the continent …'s economy and polity. We discuss recent works that shed light on Africa's colonial and precolonial legacies. The emerging corpus … Africa's post-independence maladies, we first review works that uncover the lasting legacies of colonial investments in …