Africa's economic performance has been widely viewed with pessimism. This paper uses firm-level data for 89 countries …, total factor productivity levels and productivity growth. Africa's conditional advantage is higher in low-tech than in high … important role in explaining Africa's disadvantage in firm performance, the key factor is party monopoly. The longer a single …

Although non-farm enterprises are ubiquitous in rural Sub-Saharan Africa, little is yet known about them. The …

China's World Trade Organization accession): it is not enough to assume, given Africa's high spatial inequality, that local …

-century India and Africa. Colonial institutions-the law, western style property rights, newspapers and statistical analysis … much of Asia and Africa, the most successful enhancement of people's capabilities has come through the action of hybrid …

's economic marginalization in Sub-Saharan Africa from the pre-colonial period to the end of colonial rule. It is not that women … even in kinship structures in pre-colonial Africa, utilizing the concepts of "rights in persons" and "wealth in people …." Reviewing the processes of production and reproduction, it explains why most slaves in pre-colonial Africa were women and …

growth and economic development in post-colonial Africa. The paper investigates the paradox of increased female enrollment in …