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American Economic Review

ISSN 0002-8282 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7981 (Online)

Metals or Management? Explaining Africa's Recent Economic Growth Performance

  • Laura N. Beny
  • Lisa D. Cook
American Economic Review
vol. 99, no. 2, May 2009
(pp. 268–74)
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Citation

Beny, Laura N., and Lisa D. Cook. 2009. "Metals or Management? Explaining Africa's Recent Economic Growth Performance." American Economic Review, 99 (2): 268–74. DOI: 10.1257/aer.99.2.268

JEL Classification

  • O11 Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
  • O13 Economic Development: Agriculture; Natural Resources; Energy; Environment; Other Primary Products
  • O47 Measurement of Economic Growth; Aggregate Productivity; Cross-Country Output Convergence
  • Q32 Exhaustible Resources and Economic Development