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

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 …

Natural resources have driven both growth and conflict in modern Africa. We model the interaction of parties engaged in … illumination across the whole of sub-Saharan Africa, we find evidence confirming each of the model's predictions. Structural …

Africa's recent economic growth is at a historical high. The patterns associated with this growth appear to be quite … of Africa's growth. One thing is clear: the recent growth is not well understood. Against this background, we adapt Lewis …'s (1954) dual-economy model to the economies of Africa to better understand the role that the "in-between" sector as defined …

We show that much of Africa's recent growth and poverty reduction can be traced to a substantive decline in the share …

; Japan; OECD, North America and Western Europe; South-central and Southeast Asia; Latin America; Middle East and North Africa …; Sub-Saharan Africa; and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Finally, it discusses the key policy variables that …