-agricultural households in Sub-Saharan Africa. We show that, similar to the effect of positive local weather shocks, the effect of a locally …

Investment in infrastructure is considered as a crucial prerequisite for economic development. Given the scarce … needed. This paper focuses on transport infrastructure in Africa. The effects of better and longer roads are investigated in …

We study the effect of international financial integration on economic development when the quality of governance may … follows: (1) corruption is always bad for economic development, but its effect is worse if the economy is open than if it is … closed; (2) the incidence of corruption may, itself, be affected by both the development and openness of the economy; (3 …

elasticities of import demand for the nine African countries importing from the EU and Sub-Saharan Africa respectively. Second, we …

Differences in key features of the development process across rich and poor countries can provide clues to the sources … of economic development, nding that developed countries all followed the same process. In this paper, I compare …