Africa’s recent growth performance has raised expectations of a bright economic future for the continent after decades … of decline. Yet there is a genuine question about whether Africa’s growth can be sustained, and if so, at what level. The …

Transport infrastructure has represented one of the cornerstones of development and cohesion strategies in the European … controversial. This paper revisits the question of to what extent transport infrastructure endowment -- proxied by regional … motorways -- has contributed to regional growth in the EU between 1990 and 2004. It analyses infrastructure in relationship to …

-Saharan Africa proportionately more than in other developing countries or in high-income countries, despite a terms of trade loss in …

Long-run trends in Africa’s well-being are provided on the basis of a new index of human development, alternative to … experienced in other developing regions. Within Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa has fallen steadily behind the North since mid-20th …

enhancing investments. Some of these will be publicly provided (infrastructure, agronomic knowledge), and some can only be …

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 …

effect on income. However, in Africa rugged terrain afforded protection to those being raided by slave traders. Since the … slave trade retarded subsequent economic development, in Africa ruggedness also has had a historical indirect positive … Africa the indirect positive effect dominates the direct negative effect. Looking within Africa, we provide evidence that the …