steady states arise because rents to human capital are self perpetuating. Inequality in abilities may be good for growth … also good for growth because it gives the young property rights over their own human capital, which are thus equivalent to …

This research advances an evolutionary growth theory that captures the pattern of life expectancy in the process of …

Acemoglu and Johnson (2007), estimate that improvements in health have no impact on growth or any factors of growth; in …

unsatisfactory. Poor countries outside Africa, for instance, have an income per head which stands at about one third of the rich …

colonization mattered for growth. The following had some beneficial growth effects: being a dependency rather than a colony; being …, growth accelerates after independence. Variables proxying for colonial heritage add explanatory power to standard growth … for sub-Saharan Africa becomes less significant in a cross section of 98 countries after controlling for colonial …

consumption growth. Although moving out of agriculture resulted in much higher growth than staying in agriculture, growth was …

This essay investigates the determinants of the growth performance of Africa. I start by illustrating a broader … institutional development. After reporting results from standard growth regressions, I analyze the role of Africa’s peculiar history …, which has been marked by its colonization experience. Next I discuss the potential growth impact of state fragility, a …

Long-run trends in Africa’s well-being are provided on the basis of a new index of human development, alternative to … experienced in other developing regions. Within Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa has fallen steadily behind the North since mid-20th … economic mismanagement and political turmoil on growth, advances in human development since 1990 have depended almost …