South Africa has exhibited tepid economic growth over the past twenty years as well as high levels of income inequality … characteristic of a middle income country growth trap. This paper compares and contrasts South Africa's growth trap relative to …

Africa should industrialize. Without structural change it cannot sustain recent growth. Economies with more diverse and … sophisticated industrial sectors tend to grow faster. But since 1980 Africa has deindustrialized. The paper shows that between 1975 … and 2005 the size, diversity and sophistication of industry in Africa have all declined. An industrialization strategy …

Ethiopia represents an excellent case study of recent industrial policy experimentation in Africa. The country is well …

industrial policy experimentation in Africa as it is one of the few countries that has formulated and implemented a comprehensive …

remains highly uneven across the country. Most studies of service provision in Africa assume that politicians will target … provision from the start. Rather than assuming that ethnicity underlies service distribution in Africa, we argue that … councillors and their mayor helps to account for the variation in service provision across South Africa's municipalities. We test …