We develop a framework for thinking about how to restart and sustain growth and development in Africa. The framework has three themes --- politics and institutions, macroeconomic management, and enhancing productivity. We conclude that African governments can begin to overcome regression and...

In 1997 the World Bank's two vice-presidents for Sub-Saharan Africa attributed a significant improvement in Africa's growth prospects to the advent of a new generation of leaders, replacing their "once largely statist and corrupt" predecessors. This paper begins by tracing the evolution of...

As efforts at economic integration gain ground at the regional and multilateral level, Africa's trading relations with the United States, the European Union and other partners are under the most comprehensive review since the colonial era. Those African countries in the vanguard will see the...