Correction: Governance and Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa

By Benno J. Ndulu and Stephen A. O'Connell

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2000

Why Has Africa Grown Slowly?

[Symposium: Slow Growth in Africa]

By Paul Collier and Jan Willem Gunning

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 1999

We distinguish between policy and "destiny" explanations of Africa's slow growth during the past three decades. Policies were poor: high export taxation and inefficient public service delivery, and "destiny" was adverse: landlocked, tropical locations, an...

Commodity Prices and Growth in Africa

[Symposium: Slow Growth in Africa]

By Angus Deaton

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 1999

African states that came to independence by the late 1960s made a rapid transition to authoritarian rule during a period of reasonably robust growth. Growth then faltered badly from the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s as these regimes coped with external shock...

Governance and Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa

[Symposium: Slow Growth in Africa]

By Benno J. Ndulu and Stephen A. O'Connell

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 1999

Real income per head in much of sub-Saharan Africa grew rapidly in the 1960s, but faltered following the first OPEC oil price shock in 1973-74, and then stagnated or fell from the late 1970s to the early 1990s. Africa also saw a broad wave of authoritaria...

Health and Schooling Investments in Africa

[Symposium: Slow Growth in Africa]

By T. Paul Schultz

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 1999

Intercountry comparisons show Africa's health and education falls short of other regions, controlling for income, women's educations, and urbanization, but growth regressions do not clarify whether this low human capital caused slow growth. Microeconometr...

Africa's Economic Performance: Limitations of the Current Consensus

[Symposium: Slow Growth in Africa]

By John Sender

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 1999

Historical and micro-survey evidence, as well as the standard data from international organizations, support less pessimistic conclusions on Africa's development performance than those reached by many social scientists. The changes that have benefited wom...

Sibling Rivalry in Africa

By Jonathan Morduch

American Economic Review, May 2000

Child Health and Household Resources in South Africa: Evidence from the Old Age Pension Program

By Esther Duflo

American Economic Review, May 2000

Intergroup Economic Inequality in South Africa: The Post-apartheid Era

By George Sherer

American Economic Review, May 2000

Ethnicity and Development in Africa: A Reappraisal

By Robert H. Bates

American Economic Review, May 2000

Sanctions on South Africa: What Did They Do?

By Philip I. Levy

American Economic Review, May 1999

Portfolio Choices of Parents and Their Children as Young Adults: Asset Accumulation by African-American Families

By Ngina S. Chiteji and Frank P. Stafford

American Economic Review, May 1999

The Economic Performance of African-American-Owned Banks: The Role of Loan Loss Provisions

By Christopher C. Henderson

American Economic Review, May 1999

Credit and Banking Structure: Asian and African-American Experience in Los Angeles

By Gary Dymski and Lisa Mohanty

American Economic Review, May 1999

The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation

By Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson

American Economic Review, December 2001

We exploit differences in European mortality rates to estimate the effect of institutions on economic performance. Europeans adopted very different colonization policies in different colonies, with different associated institutions. In places where Europe...

Mobile Phones and Economic Development in Africa

By Jenny C. Aker and Isaac M. Mbiti

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2010

Access to and use of mobile telephony in sub-Saharan Africa has increased dramatically over the past decade. Mobile telephony has brought new possibilities to the continent. Across urban-rural and rich-poor divides, mobile phones connect individuals to in...

Explaining African Economic Performance

By Paul Collier and Jan Willem Gunning

Journal of Economic Literature, March 1999

Africa has had slow growth and a massive exodus of capital. In many respects it has been the most capital-hostile region. We review and interpret the aggregate-level and microeconomic literatures to identify the key explanations for this performance. Ther...

The Roma/Non-Roma Test Score Gap in Hungary

By Gábor Kertesi and Gábor Kézdi

American Economic Review, May 2011

This paper documents and decomposes the test score gap between Roma and non-Roma 8th graders in Hungary in 2006. Our data connect national standardized test scores to an individual panel survey with detailed data on ethnicity and family background. The te...

The Impact of the Transatlantic Slave Trade on Ethnic Stratification in Africa

By Warren Whatley and Rob Gillezeau

American Economic Review, May 2011

In the last 15 years, economists and economic historians have argued that Africa has undergone a "reversal of fortune" and that ethnic fragmentation is a significant cause of Africa's underdevelopment. In this article, we join these narratives by arguing ...

Global Financial Crisis and Africa: Is the Impact Permanent or Transitory? Time Series Evidence from North Africa

By Hassan Y. Aly and Mark C. Strazicich

American Economic Review, May 2011

We utilize time series tests with structural breaks to test for an adverse impact on economic growth rates in North Africa associated with the recent US financial crisis and global recession. One or two breaks are identified for each country, except for M...