-Saharan Africa, economic growth is associated with low schooling, political instability, underdeveloped financial systems, distorted … foreign exchange markets, high government deficits, and insufficient infrastructure. Africa's high ethnic fragmentation …

Ethnic divisions explain a significant part of Africa's slow growth and Africa's choice of growth-reducing policies …. Africa's poor growth is associated with Africa's low schooling, political instability, underdeveloped financial systems …, distorted foreign exchange markets, high government deficits, and insufficient infrastructure. Africa's high level of ethnic …

This article studies the role of political distortions in driving economic growth and development in Africa. We first … connections in firm outcomes; it provides a framework that unifies results in Africa and elsewhere, and leaves a wide scope for …

remittances are not statistically significant in promoting inclusive growth in Africa. Notably, across the economic growth and …, they deepen the latter. Second, we find that Africa's underdeveloped financial sector dampens the marginal positive effect … with complementary policies to foster inclusive growth in Africa, a minimum threshold of 14.5% is required. We conclude by …

Foreign aid has failed to bring about any significant development results in the poor countries of Africa in over sixty …

because typically in Africa, "good economics" has proved not to be politically feasible. In this paper we suggest that good …