Africa's interior-to-coast roads are well suited to export natural resources, but not to support regional trade. Are they the optimal response to geography and comparative advantage, or the result of suboptimal political distortions? We investigate the political determinants of road paving in...

Africa's interior-to-coast roads are well suited to export natural resources, but not to support regional trade. Are they the optimal response to geography and comparative advantage, or the result of suboptimal political distortions? We investigate the political determinants of road paving in...

1. Background -- 2. The Africa Precolonial Social, Political and Economic Development -- 3. Post-Independence Politics in Africa -- 4. Technology and Deindustrialisation -- 5. Education and Labour -- 6. Economy and Agriculture -- 7. Infrastructure -- 8. Corruption and Under-development in Africa...