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Economic Structure and Poverty in Africa
For students in EC310 this Winter, the current special issue of the Journal of African Economies on industrialization, poverty and inequality is a great resource for those of you interested in African countries, or developing countries more generally. Journal of … Continue reading
Africa Can Help Feed Africa
We often worry about international barriers to trade and their effect on food security – with a focus on developed country policy. What are the effects of regional policy within the developing world? Africa can help feed Africa: Removing barriers … Continue reading
Foreign Aid in Dangerous Places: The donors and Mali’s democracy
Nicolas van de Walle looking at the role of foreign aid in preventing conflict in Mali. Abstract Mali long seemed a model, low-income democracy. Yet, in a few short weeks in early 2012, more than half of the territory came … Continue reading
Ecology, Trade and States
A new paper by James Fenske at Oxford on the origins of institutional structures. Abstract State capacity matters for growth. I test Bates’ explanation of pre-colonial African states. He argues that trade across ecological boundaries promoted states. I find that … Continue reading
African poverty: Falling faster than you think
A summary of recent work on African poverty rates by Maxim Pinkovskiy and Xavier Sala-i-Martin. African poverty: Falling faster than you think. The critical result to this research is the decline in inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa since the mid-late 1980’s, … Continue reading