achieving security, yet the experience of changing policing systems in Africa is disappointing. Only South Africa and a few post …

Many low income countries in Africa are optimistic that producing biofuels domestically will not only reduce their …

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 …

The global economic crisis beginning in 2008 has come at a very inopportune time for Africa. Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA …

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 …

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 …

Africa should industrialize. Without structural change it cannot sustain recent growth. Economies with more diverse and … sophisticated industrial sectors tend to grow faster. But since 1980 Africa has deindustrialized. The paper shows that between 1975 … and 2005 the size, diversity and sophistication of industry in Africa have all declined. An industrialization strategy …