A critical task is to construct a development state - a set of democratically - accountable institutions capable of effective policy design and implementation. The new state agenda is ambitions and resource intensive. It cannot therefore be achieved unless the fiscal crisis of African state is...

This paper investigates the relationship between mining and spatial inequality in Africa during 2001-12. The identification strategy is based on a unilateral causation between mining and district inequality. The findings show that when minerals are aggregated, mining increases district...

This paper investigates China's influence on local economic development in 37 African countries between 1997 and 2007. The analysis compares the average changes in economic growth, migration, spatial inequality, and welfare for mineral-rich districts, pre- and post-accession, to the...