%0 Report
        %A Bertocchi, Graziella
        %T Growth, Colonization, and Institutional Development: In and Out of Africa
        %D 2011
        %8 2011 Jul
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 5856
        %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp5856
        %X This essay investigates the determinants of the growth performance of Africa. I start by illustrating a broader research agenda which accounts not only for basic economic and demographic factors, but also for the role of history and institutional development. After reporting results from standard growth regressions, I analyze the role of Africa’s peculiar history, which has been marked by its colonization experience. Next I discuss the potential growth impact of state fragility, a concept which reflects multiple facets of the dysfunctions that plague the continent. The last topic I address is the influence, in and out of Africa, of the slave trades. The essay ends with critical conclusions and suggestions for further research.
        %K state fragility
%K institutions
%K colonization
%K history
%K Africa
%K growth
%K slavery