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

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

. Some fundamental determinants that econometrically can explain success worldwide do not work within Africa: size …

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 …

's (1954) dual-economy model to the economies of Africa to better understand the role that the “in-between” sector as defined …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 …

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

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 …

effect on income. However, in Africa rugged terrain afforded protection to those being raided during the slave trades. Since … the slave trades retarded subsequent economic development, in Africa ruggedness has also had a historical indirect … for Africa the indirect positive effect dominates the direct negative effect. Looking within Africa, we also provide …