This essay investigates the determinants of the growth performance of Africa. I start by illustrating a broader … institutional development. After reporting results from standard growth regressions, I analyze the role of Africa's peculiar history … influence, in and out of Africa, of the slave trades. The essay ends with critical conclusions and suggestions for further …

recent decades as a result of increased globalization of knowledge, technologies and economies. In particular I look at the … development in a number area where similar trends are observed. The areas studied include globalization, in-sourcing and …

globalization on the skill premium and fully-endogenous growth. Higher quality products are endogenously discovered through … outsourcing of investment services. Globalization, captured by a move from autarky to the integrated-world equilibrium, leads to … convergence of wages and growth rates. Globalization and long-run growth are either substitutes or complements depending on a …

Africa’s interior-to-coast roads are well suited to export natural resources, but not to support regional trade. Are … investigate the political determinants of road paving in West Africa across the 1965-2012 period. Controlling for geography and … networks expanded in a less interior-to-coast way in periods of democracy. This result suggests that Africa’s interior …

The importance of the prehistoric migration of anatomically modern humans from Africa for comparative economic …

analyze a broad range of subnational stability measures in Africa. Aid by both the WB and China does not increase outright …

The slave trades out of Africa represent one of the most significant forced migration experiences in history. In this …" countries in Africa, with attention to their economic, institutional, demographic, and social implications. Next I evaluate the …

We study the long-term determinants of the high rates of HIV infection in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly among women …

analyze a broad range of subnational stability measures in Africa. Aid by both the World Bank and China does not increase …

inclusive green growth (IGG) relationship in Africa. Based on macro data for 22 African countries and the Driscoll …-Kraay standard errors with fixed effects instrumental variable regression, the following findings are established. First, Africa … threshold analysis suggests that by improving Africa’s mostly unfree economic architecture to 60% (moderately free) or 80% (free …