The economic tragedy of the XXth Century: Growth in Africa

By Elsa V. Artadi, Xavier Sala-i-Martin. 2003

264 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Demography, Information Systems, Political Science and International Relations

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In Demography

1. Kwabena Gyimah-Brempong
2. Marina Azzimonti
3. Facundo Alvaredo
4. E. Asiedu
5. Leonardo Gasparini

In Information Systems

1. E. Asiedu
2. Kwabena Gyimah-Brempong
3. Marina Azzimonti
4. Facundo Alvaredo
5. Leonardo Gasparini
6. John C. Anyanwu
7. Mushfiq Swaleheen
8. William K. Darley

In Political Science and International Relations

1. Marina Azzimonti
2. E. Asiedu

Citations in the corpus

• Assessing the impact of infrastructure quality on firm productivity in Africa: cross-country comparisons based on investment climate surveys from 1999 to 2005 (2010, background): “The World Bank’s landmark Africa Competitiveness Report (ACR) (2004 and 2007) focuses on problems that, in the words of Artadi and Sala-i-Martin (2003), constitute the most important growth tragedy of the twentieth century—a phenomenon that has received special attention in recent growth literature,”
• Higher education and economic growth in Africa (2006, background): “1 For example, Artadi and Sala-i-Martin ( 2003 ) argue that if primary school enrolment rates at independence in African countries had been as high as those in OECD countries, the average annual growth rate of per capita income in Africa would have been 2.”
• Does Foreign Aid In Education Promote Economic Growth? Evidence From Sub-Saharan Africa (2014, background): “The fifth reason for focusing on SSA is that several studies have found that the determinants of growth have a differential impact for countries in SSA (Easterly and Levine, 1997; Block, 2001, Artadi and Sala-i-Martin, 2003).”
• Historical Legacies: A Model Linking Africa's Past to its Current Underdevelopment (2007, unknown): “ε if xt = 0 and πu(0, τ, q) > πp(0, τ, q) F (xt) otherwise (8)”
• Barriers to Investment in Polarized Societies (2011, background): “max gN ,gS≥0 (1 − ρ)u(c) + ρv(g ) + β{pN (K ′)VN (K ′) + [1 − pN (K ′)]WN (K ′)} (9)”
• Recent trends in inequality and poverty in developing countries (2013, background): “Artadi and Sala-i-Martin (2003) find that the SSA poverty rate was stable in the 1970s, around a value of 49%, and soared in the 1980s and early 1990s reaching 60% in 1995, following the deterioration of the aggregate per capita income of Sub-Saharan economies.”