I assess the efficiency of transport networks for every country in Africa. Using rich spatial data, I simulate trade … road system for every African state. My simulations predict that Africa would gain 1.1% of total welfare from better … organising its national road systems. I then construct a novel dataset of local network inefficiency and I find that colonial …

capacity constrained under a limited or selective network) may demand high prices that not all insurers are willing to pay …' choices of network. Hospitals in systems are found to capture markups of approximately 19 per cent of revenues, in contrast to …

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