The dismal growth performance of Africa is the worst economic tragedy of the XXth century. We document the evolution of … rates Africa would have enjoyed if these key determinants had taken OECD rather than African values. Expensive investment …

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 …

, Sierra Leone, and Tanzania). Despite reputations for weak health sectors and low average levels of education, health … provision of health information, likely reduced the severity of the pandemic in Africa but was not a panacea …

At roughly 4% per annum, labor productivity in Tanzania has grown more rapidly over the past 12 years than at any other …-agricultural employment growth has occurred in the informal sector. Using Tanzania's first nationally representative survey of micro, small … economy-wide labor productivity growth in Tanzania between 2002 and 2012. However, virtually all of the labor productivity …

Standard measures of productivity display enormous dispersion across farms in Africa. Crop yields and input intensities … rich panel data from farms in Tanzania and Uganda, we estimate our model using a flexible specification in which we allow …

-Saharan Africa for the period 1980-96, indicate that increases in the permanent component of the terms of trade (measured using three …