Growth has been high and widespread in the last decade in Africa. Whether this shift in Africa's fortune has impacted … Africa and addresses whether or not previously held belief that Africa is too poor to grow is relevant today. The findings … employment, particularly to increase in employment in the industrial sector, than to increase in mean income. In Africa the co …

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 …

indicate that employment and energy use are strongly linked in Africa. Unidirectional causality from employment to energy use … estimates did not indicate any causality in Big African players like South Africa, Nigeria, Morocco, Ghana and Senegal. …

model, calibrated to data for Africa, Latin America and developing Asia, reflects relatively well capital account policies …

We assess Africa's prospects for enjoying a demographic dividend. While fertility rates and dependency ratios in Africa … Northern America. This projection suggests Africa has considerable potential to enjoy a demographic dividend. Whether and when … these areas, coordinated policies will likely be most effective in generating the momentum needed to pull Africa's economies …

prominent in Africa today, but do or can Africans respond to them with the same elasticity as in the days of "free" migration …? Our new estimates of net migration and labor market performance for the countries of sub-Saharan Africa suggest that …. In Africa today, economic growth has faltered, its economies have fallen further behind the highwage OECD leaders, and …

Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) for Africa. Results suggest inequality between countries tends to be higher when the share of … inequality in Africa. Other factors correlated strongly with inequality reduction include human capital which tend to have large … and significant income or asset equalizing effect in Africa, particularly at higher level of education. Growth in …

providing evidence of a resource curse. Extractive industries in South Africa, Botswana, and Namibia have positive direct …

, and innovation in Africa. Using data from 34 African countries over the period 2011-2016 sourced from the World Bank …, and trade. Short-term labour mobility thus emerges in Africa, too, as a prospective policy lever to generate new …

This paper analyzes the role of networks in the spatial diffusion of local economic shocks in Africa. We show that road … then determine the key players, i.e., which districts are key in propagating local economic shocks across Africa. Using …