Africa should industrialize. Without structural change it cannot sustain recent growth. Economies with more diverse and … sophisticated industrial sectors tend to grow faster. But since 1980 Africa has deindustrialized. The paper shows that between 1975 … and 2005 the size, diversity and sophistication of industry in Africa have all declined. An industrialization strategy …

We explore the determinants of state fragility in sub-Saharan Africa. Controlling for a wide range of economic …

private sector intensified. Policy support, however, averted a credit crunch. The increase in public debt across Africa due to …

estimates based on household surveys of the productive payoff in Sub-Saharan Africa to nutrition and health, as proxied by adult … heterogeneity and sample selection are assessed in the cases of Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire. Political restrictions in South Africa … local quality of schooling, which appear to benefit disproportionately the above-average income households in Africa, as in …

-country regressions covering 31 Sub-Saharan African countries suggest that growth in Africa is not simply a question of capital …

understand the prospects for achieving poverty reduction in Africa. We examine the levels and trends in income distribution in …, Mozambique, and South Africa. We conclude that the balance between policies aimed at growth and measures aimed at redistribution …