. Exploiting the staggered implementation of the US-initiated Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) and using high …-resolution data on ethnic composition and violent conflict for sub-Saharan Africa, our analysis finds that in the wake of improved … trade access conflict declines less in locations that are ethnically remote from the rest of the country. We hypothesize …

In the new millennium, the Western aid effort towards Africa has surged due to writings by well-known economists, a … celebrity mass advocacy campaign, and decisions by Western leaders to make Africa a major foreign policy priority. This survey … contrasts the predominant "transformational" approach (West saves Africa) to occasional swings to a "marginal" approach (West …

This paper explores whether one of the most important U.S. policies towards Africa of the past few decades achieved its … desired result. In 2000, the United States dropped trade restrictions on a broad list of products through the African Growth …