Six years after enactment, the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) remains the cornerstone of U.S. economic … policy toward sub-Saharan Africa. Has AGOA fulfilled its promise to serve as a catalyst for African economic development? The … Textiles and Clothing and China's accession to the WTO, the article considers AGOA's effect on Africa's nascent textile and …

research. -- growth ; Africa ; history ; colonization ; institutions ; state fragility ; slavery …This essay investigates the determinants of the growth performance of Africa. I start by illustrating a broader … institutional development. After reporting results from standard growth regressions, I analyze the role of Africa's peculiar history …

We explore the determinants of state fragility in sub-Saharan Africa. Controlling for a wide range of economic …, demographic, geographic and istitutional regressors, we find that institutions, and in particular the civil liberties index and …. Economic factors such as income growth and investment display a non robust impact after controlling for omitted variables and …

Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) ranks as the second most unequal region globally (in terms of income distribution), harboring … its effects on economic growth in SSA. The study spans the period 1995-2015, focusing on 31 SSA countries. Findings from … economic growth via the saving transmission channel, while it has a statistically significant negative effect on economic …

In this thesis, we will explore what led to the economic development and growth or lack of, in four African Countries …

persistence of inefficient institutions in developing countries. Colonization, social fragmentation and the existence and use of … single factor on its own can explain the persistence of inefficient institutions; rather, it is the combination of exogenous … and endogenous factors that shape institutions …

growth. We use the EORA Multi-Region Input-Output tables to track the evolution of African countries along global value … local projection method to investigate the relationship between global value chains participation and growth, and provide … chains positively impacts their growth; a positive impact which is driven by trade in commodities, knowledge intensive good …