All the countries in Anglophone Africa share a common history of British colonialism. Many of the administrative practices and laws are similar. There must have been a model set of legal clauses for property tax produced in Whitehall for the colonial administration to use and adapt to local...

Recent studies on African economic history have emphasized the structural impediments to African growth, such as adverse geographical conditions and extractive colonial institutions. The evidence is mainly drawn from cross-country regressions on late 20th century income levels, assuming...

This paper presents an overview of the evolution of exchange-rate regimes in Africa and then attempts to assess empirically the impact of exchange-rate policy on manufactured export performance on a panel of major Sub-Saharan Africa countries over the 1970-92 period. We examine the impact of...