August 1995 - Problems associated with Sub-Saharan Africa's slow growth are low school attainment, political … change together, the effects on growth are more than double what they would have been if one country had acted alone. Africa …. Easterly and Levine use one methodology - cross-country regressions - to account for Sub-Saharan Africa's growth performance …

While many analysts decry the lack of sufficient investment in Africa, we find no evidence that private and public … investment are productive, either in Africa as a whole (unless Botswana is included in the sample), or in the manufacturing …

In the new millennium, the Western aid effort towards Africa has surged due to writings by well-known economists, a … celebrity mass advocacy campaign, and decisions by Western leaders to make Africa a major foreign policy priority. This survey … contrasts the predominant "transformational" approach (West saves Africa) to occasional swings to a "marginal" approach (West …

as facing many hurdles to raise living standards. Yet Africa has made considerable progress in the past decade, with a …