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This paper reviews the literature on the impact of ethnic diversity on economic development. Ethnically polarized societies are less likely to agree on the provision of public goods and more likely to engage in rent seeking activities providing lower levels of social capital. Initial conditions...
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No Poverty' and 'Reduced Inequalities' are two out of the 17 sustainable development goals of the United Nations. Nowadays, Kenya faces high levels of poverty and inequality: 36 percent of the population live below the poverty line and the Gini coefficient was 0.445 in 2015. Against this...
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various governance dynamics on inclusive growth in SSA. We do this by testing two hypotheses– first, whether unconditionally …, political stability, and voice and accountability) foster inclusive growth in SSA; and second, whether these governance dynamics … engender positive synergy with FDI on inclusive growth in SSA. Using data from the World Bank’s World Governance Indicators and …
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; diversity ; economic growth ; instability …
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they have played significant roles in the region's slow and episodic economic growth. Results from cross …-country regressions covering 31 Sub-Saharan African countries suggest that growth in Africa is not simply a question of capital … growth of African economies does not depend so much on their ability to innovate, but rather on their capacity to absorb and …
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The current paper demonstrates a dichotomy of the growth response to changes in the barter terms of trade, employing as … country was to reverse course. -- resource economies ; terms of trade ; growth …
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The current paper, first, finds that although the post-independence growth of African economies has fallen … uncovers total factor productivity as the primary culprit underlying the generally dismal growth record. Third, reflecting … recent evidence, the paper finds that "policy syndromes" represent a major culprit explaining the growth performance, with …
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We explore the potential effects of the first leaders of Sub-Saharan Africa. We first outline a set of theoretical reasons for why leaders may matter particularly at the critical juncture of African independence and why this influence may be persistent. In an unbalanced panel from 40 African...
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The paper explores the paths towards building institutional foundations for inclusive development in Sub-Saharan Africa. Viewing institutional configurations as a system of multiple equilibria, the concepts of endogenous institutions and institutional changes are used to address the question of...
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Recent evidence from an exhaustive political economy study of growth of African economies- the growth project of the … poor growth in sub-Saharan Africa during post-independence. The current article employs the unique data and insights … generated by the growth project to further explore the importance of a 'syndrome-free' (SF) regime for growth in the region by …
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