modern day economic growth. The fact that different colonial strategies were pursued by different colonizers in various … territories suggests possible ramifications for current development paths. This paper attempts to understand why economic growth … both the initial conditions at independence alongside the subsequent post-independence changes in explaining growth …

Special Economic Zones (SEZs) have become common across Southern Africa in the past 20 years. In line with experiences …-cutting blockages to growth. In East Asia, this approach was able to build on a broader national industrialization trajectory. In … Southern Africa, by contrast, it has proved unable to offset the main constraints on investment. These centre on deep …

The youth have long represented an important constituency for electoral mobilization in Africa. Today, as the region … generational identities within the region, very little is really known about the political participation of Africa's youth. In … order to address this issue, we combine country-level variables for 19 of Africa's most democratic countries with individual …

How does aid impact democracy in sub-Saharan Africa? Drawing on existing literature, this study elaborates on the …

Over the past two decades, donors increasingly linked foreign aid to democracy objectives in sub-Saharan Africa. Yet … and how foreign aid affects the process of democratic consolidation in sub-Saharan Africa by examining two potential …

transformation in Africa, focusing on sectoral output shares, sectoral employment shares, and the relative labour productivity of … sectors. We find that Africa is gradually advancing towards structural transformation but at a very slow speed. The empirical … product growth and population density reduce unemployment and non-employment. …

Although development generally refers to a broad concept, the quest for development in Sub-Saharan Africa has been … and advocates generalized balanced growth and structural transformation to move Sub-Saharan African countries towards self …

institutions, natural resource rents cease to have a negative impact on long-term growth. Institutions in resource-based economies … foster economic growth when voice and accountability are in place; broad-based rule of law is enforced with secure property …