Is Per-Capita Growth in Africa Hampered by Poor Governance and Weak Institutions? Examining the Case of the ECOWAS Countries

Dufrénot, Gilles; Sanon, Gilles; Diop, Abdoulaye

doi:10.2139/ssrn.904546

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“…These results reinforce the findings of other empirical studies (Dufrénot, Sanon, and Diop 2006;Ndulu et al 2007) of the close relationship between institutions and governance and economic performance in Africa. However, they also reveal that governance appears to be more relevant to understanding how to avoid a growth deceleration than how to promote an acceleration.…”

Section: Savings Investment and Consumptionsupporting

confidence: 91%

“…But a closer look shows that resource-rich countries-oil-rich countries in particular-were among the main causes of the worsening in governance and also that these indicators were particularly low there during growth acceleration. These results highlight the importance of the political economy issues associated with mineraland oil-rich countries in Africa as found in the recent empirical literature (see, for example, Kaufmann, Kraay, and Zoido 1999;Dufrénot, Sanon, and Diop 2006;Ndulu et al 2007;Seldadyo, Nugroho, and de Haan 2007).…”

Section: Human Capitalsupporting

confidence: 76%

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Section: Savings Investment and Consumptionsupporting

confidence: 91%

Section: Human Capitalsupporting

confidence: 76%

Is Africa's Economy At A Turning Point?

Arbache¹,

Go²,

Page³

2008

Policy Research Working Papers

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show abstract

“…These results reinforce the findings of other empirical studies (Ndulu et al, 2007, Dufrénot et al, 2006 of the close relationship between institutions and governance and economic performance in Africa. However they also reveal that governance appears to be more relevant to understanding how to avoid a growth deceleration than how to promote an acceleration.…”

Section: Growth Decelerationsupporting

confidence: 91%