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 …

-Saharan Africa, economic growth is associated with low schooling, political instability, underdeveloped financial systems, distorted … foreign exchange markets, high government deficits, and insufficient infrastructure. Africa's high ethnic fragmentation …

Ethnic divisions explain a significant part of Africa's slow growth and Africa's choice of growth-reducing policies …. Africa's poor growth is associated with Africa's low schooling, political instability, underdeveloped financial systems …, distorted foreign exchange markets, high government deficits, and insufficient infrastructure. Africa's high level of ethnic …

systems. After showing that the intensity with which people were enslaved and exported from Africa during the 1400 - 1900 …