Despite the past centuries' economic setbacks and challenges, are there reasons for optimism about Africa's economic … sets of unrecognized "latent assets." First, success in African society is talent driven and Africa has experienced high … can be a critical basis for building better institutions. Third, Africa is "cosmopolitan." Africans are the most …

Various arguments have been used to explain Sub-Saharan Africa's economic decline. We find that a stress on investments … poverty alleviation; and that the constraints imposed by Sub-Saharan Africa's human and physical geography are not core …

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

Conventional wisdom proposes deep historical roots for authoritarianism in Africa: either colonial "decentralized …

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

provision of health information, likely reduced the severity of the pandemic in Africa but was not a panacea …