-average temperatures and the incidence of civil war in Africa (Burke et al. 2009). These findings have recently been challenged by Buhaug …

The conventional wisdom that Africa is not reducing poverty is wrong. Using the methodology of Pinkovskiy and Sala …

This paper explores whether one of the most important U.S. policies towards Africa of the past few decades achieved its …

Africa and Latin America secured their independence from European colonial rule a century and half apart: most of Latin … America after 1820 and most of Africa after 1960. Despite the distance in time and space, they share important similarities … about a half-century (lost decades). The parallels suggest that Africa might be exiting from a period of post …

Using country- and region-level data, I investigate the effect of HIV/AIDS on fertility in Africa during 1985 …

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 …

prominent in Africa today, but do or can Africans respond to them with the same elasticity as in the days of 'free' migration …? Our new estimates of net migration and labor market performance for the countries of sub-Saharan Africa suggest that …. In Africa today, economic growth has faltered, its economies have fallen further behind the high-wage OECD leaders, and …

Various arguments have been used to explain Sub-Saharan Africa's economic decline. We find that a stress on investments … poverty alleviation; and that the constraints imposed by Sub-Saharan Africa's human and physical geography are not core …