-specific pre-colonial institutions in shaping comparative regional development in Africa. We utilize information on the spatial …

In this paper we evaluate the impact of colonialism on development in Sub-Saharan Africa. In the world context …, colonialism had very heterogeneous effects, operating through many mechanisms, sometimes encouraging development sometimes … the colonial period, but also to take a view on what might have happened without colonialism and also to take into account …

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 …

As Africa's role on the global stage is rising, so does the need to understand the shadow of history on the continent …'s economy and polity. We discuss recent works that shed light on Africa's colonial and precolonial legacies. The emerging corpus … Africa's post-independence maladies, we first review works that uncover the lasting legacies of colonial investments in …

We show that much of Africa's recent growth and poverty reduction can be traced to a substantive decline in the share …

We examine the long-run consequences of ethnic partitioning, a neglected aspect of the Scramble for Africa, and uncover …

versions of his other critiques. His second argument that all the data from Latin America and much of the data from Africa …

unwilling to provide basic public goods such as law enforcement, order, education and infrastructure. In Africa this is often … Leone. We also present a hypothesis as to why the extent to which indirect rule has persisted varies greatly within Africa …

Sub-Saharan Africa experienced a terms of trade boom that was comparable to other parts of the ‘global periphery' from the … Africa. We also show that the accelerated export growth after the establishment of colonial rule deepened Africa …