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Disease & Development
Two of the best economists on the topic of agriculture and development, Margaret McMillan and William Masters, have teamed up with a good development economist from Oklahoma State University, Harounan...
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Interesting new papers on African institutions
The Journal of African Economies has a special issue this month on the topic of institutions and African economies. In my Ph.D. development class I have a section on African economic development, so I...
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Always good to dream big
I’m late to this story, but I was recently reading about President Yahya Jammeh of The Gambia. While many African countries have made great strides in democratization in recent years, Mr. Jammeh is...
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Score one for Jeffrey Sachs in the geography versus institutions debate
While hopefully all economists believe that both institutions and geography are important to development, there is a debate in the literature about which factor is more important. Acemoglu, Johnson,...
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Ethnicity, institutions & governance in Sub-Saharan Africa
Stelios Michalopoulos and Elias Papaioannouby have a great new working paper called “On the Ethnic Origins of African Development Chiefs and Pre-colonial Political Centralization.” The authors make...
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