Book of Donmon Teith

This Book explains why African countries have remained mired in a disastrous economic crisis since the late 1970s. It shows that dynamics internal to African st

As the World Bank famously put it back in 1989, 'underlying the litany of Africa's development problems is a crisis of governance.' This is a collection of auth

In this book, Nicolas Van de Walle identifies 26 countries that are extremely poor and grew little if at all in the 1990s. His sample excludes North Korea and c

Appendix: The Data Set.

One of the most urgent challenges in African economic development is to devise a strategy for improving statistical capacity. Reliable statistics, including est