Africa and Latin America secured their independence from European colonial rule a century and half apart: most of Latin … America after 1820 and most of Africa after 1960. Despite the distance in time and space, they share important similarities … about a half-century (lost decades). The parallels suggest that Africa might be exiting from a period of post …

effect on income. However, in Africa rugged terrain afforded protection to those being raided by slave traders. Since the … slave trade retarded subsequent economic development, in Africa ruggedness also has had a historical indirect positive … Africa the indirect positive effect dominates the direct negative effect. Looking within Africa, we provide evidence that the …

advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic and Russia, economies that represent …

This paper studies structural transformation of Soviet Russia in 1928-1940 from an agrarian to an industrial economy … through the lens of a two-sector neoclassical growth model. We construct a large dataset that covers Soviet Russia during 1928 …-1940 and Tsarist Russia during 1885-1913. We use a two-sector growth model to compute sectoral TFPs as well as distortions and …

Using state-level data from India over the period 1983 to 2005, this paper gauges the effect of financial deepening and …

Despite increasingly large scale social protection programs in Africa, we have limited evidence on the local political …

in Africa over the period 1997-2011. Our units of observation are cells of 1 degree of latitude by 1 degree of longitude …

within sub-Saharan Africa. The existing evidence suggests that information technology has improved market efficiency and …