achieving security, yet the experience of changing policing systems in Africa is disappointing. Only South Africa and a few post …

Many low income countries in Africa are optimistic that producing biofuels domestically will not only reduce their …

The global economic crisis beginning in 2008 has come at a very inopportune time for Africa. Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA …

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 …

-country regressions covering 31 Sub-Saharan African countries suggest that growth in Africa is not simply a question of capital …

In recent decades, the impact of South African foreign direct investment in Africa has been captured by research and …

promoted economic diversification. However, the growth has not been uniform across regions and countries. Africa lags behind in … service exports. This paper examines the competitiveness of service exports in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), focusing on the East …

A consensus among social scientists is that fertility rates in Africa are declining. What determines these declines? I … Africa. This finding is consistent with the predictions of the unified growth theory and sheds important insights in … explaining the sustained income growth Africa has experienced since 1995. The paper also shows that the effects of income per …