Because of limited governmental resources, communities in Africa often rely on collective action to provide basic public goods such as schools. What drives the ability of communities to produce better schools? Two important lines of research shaped our understanding of the ability of communities...

This paper attempts an empirical examination of the interaction between corruption, political instability and the mortality rate, as well as their transmission mechanisms in Sub-Saharan Africa. We use panel VAR techniques to test the causality and the cointegration between these three variables...