This paper examines growth successes and failures across countries and notes the latter’s perplexing predominance among ex ante low-income economies. An explanation for this persistence of underdevelopment is proposed through an empirical investigation that brings forth evidence on the...

Introduction / Toyin Falola and Jessica Achberger. - Part 1. Historical roots of African underdevelopment. - Africa and the making of the global environmental narrative: challenges and opportunities for the continent's development initiatives / Martin S. Shanguhyia. - Indigenization versus...

The use of income distribution indicators in the economics literature has increased considerably in recent years. This work relies on household surveys from 18 LAC countries to take a step back from the use of these indicators, and explore what's behind the numbers, and what information they...