Using country- and region-level data, I investigate the effect of HIV/AIDS on fertility in Africa during 1985 …

Can part of Africa's current underdevelopment be explained by its slave trades? To explore this question, I use data … exported from each country during Africa's slave trades. I find a robust negative relationship between the number of slaves …

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 …

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

Africa's recent economic growth is at a historical high. The patterns associated with this growth appear to be quite … of Africa's growth. One thing is clear: the recent growth is not well understood. Against this background, we adapt Lewis …'s (1954) dual-economy model to the economies of Africa to better understand the role that the “in-between” sector as defined …

Natural resources have driven both growth and conflict in modern Africa. We model the interaction of parties engaged in … illumination across the whole of sub-Saharan Africa, we find evidence confirming each of the model's predictions. Structural …

The conventional wisdom that Africa is not reducing poverty is wrong. Using the methodology of Pinkovskiy and Sala …

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 …