Sub-Saharan Africa's dismal development outcomes-growth collapse and declining real income-are often used to highlight … paper shows that Africa’s underlying dismal growth performance can be largely accounted for by high political risk and … uncertainty which undermined investments and growth prospects in the region over most of the post-independence era. This …

Empirical explorations of the growth and productivity impacts of infrastructure have been characterized by ambiguous … infrastructure overprovision, simultaneity between infrastructure provision and growth, and the possibility of multiple (hence … systematic pattern is also shown to hold for our dataset in estimations that include the infrastructure measures in simple growth …

-Saharan African nations on their poor growth performance relative to other developing countries, this avenue remains empirically … unexplored. In this paper we use a new cross-country panel climatic data set in an economic growth framework to explore the issue …. Our results show that rainfall has been a significant determinant of poor economic growth for Africa, but not for other …

: (1) with the exception of the economic freedom mechanism, liberalization policies have generally decreased the growth of …

: varying conditioning information sets, changes in the growth of urban population, government consumption, legal systems …