unemployment, inadequate support in difficult work situations, the use of drugs the week before the interview (for high cholesterol …

This paper estimates the effect of institutions on economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa over the period 1995-2007. We … that countries with good institutions grew faster than countries with poor institutions. Using external instruments, 2SLS … regressions point to a causal impact. Our findings are consistent with the view that institutions are a root cause of economic …

robust. It holds in OLS, LAD and 2SLS settings; it holds for different measures of institutions and different measures of … institutions has played an important part in Africa’s recent growth acceleration. The continent has seen many false dawns, caused … in large part by ups in commodity prices, but a growth acceleration driven by institutions is likely to signify a genuine …