Peer-Reviewed Article December 8, 2012
Growth of African Economies: Productivity, Policy Syndromes and the Importance of Institutions
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Published in: Journal of African Economies
Publisher: Oxford University Press • South Africa • 0963-8024 • 1464-3723
Abstract
Recent evidence from an exhaustive political economy study of growth of African economies–the growth project of the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) suggests that `policy syndromes´ have substantially contributed to the generally poor growth