Barrios, Salvador; Bertinelli, Luisito; Strobl, Eric - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 92 (2010) 2, pp. 350-366
We examine the role of rainfall trends in poor growth performance of sub-Saharan African nations relative to other developing countries, using a new cross-country panel climatic data set in an empirical economic growth framework. Our results show that rainfall has been a significant determinant...