evidence is supportive to theories and narratives on the presence of a "dual" economic and institutional environment in Africa. …

because typically in Africa, ‘good economics’ has proved not to be politically feasible. In this Paper we suggest that good …

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 …