African successes. Volume I, Government and institutions / edited by Sebastian Edwards, Simon Johnson, and David N. Weil.

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Machine generated contents note: I. Political Economy and Conflict -- 1. Healing the Wounds: Learning from Sierra Leone's Postwar Institutional Reforms / Edward Miguel -- 2. Political Economy of Government Revenues in Postconflict Resource-Rich Africa: Liberia and Sierra Leone / Sylvain Dessy -- 3. Does Decentralization Facilitate Access to Poverty-Related Services? Evidence from Benin / Gregoire Rota-Graziosi -- 4. Demographic Pressure and Institutional Change: Village-Level Response to Rural Population Growth in Burkina Faso / Harounan Kazianga -- 5. New Tools for the Analysis of Political Power in Africa / Francesco Trebbi -- II. Government Regulation and Basic Institutions -- 6. Deals versus Rules: Policy Implementation Uncertainty and Why Firms Hate It / Lant Pritchett -- 7. Unofficial Economy in Africa / Andrei Shleifer -- 8. State versus Consumer Regulation: An Evaluation of Two Road Safety Interventions in Kenya / William Jack -- III. Long-Run Assessments -- 9. Fifteen Years On: Household Incomes in South Africa / James Levinsohn -- 10. Is Tanzania a Success Story? A Long-Term Analysis / Sebastian Edwards.

Studies of African economic development frequently focus on the daunting challenges the continent faces. From recurrent crises to ethnic conflicts and long-standing corruption, a raft of deep-rooted problems has led many to regard the continent as facing many hurdles to raise living standards. Yet Africa has made considerable progress in the past decade, with a GDP growth rate exceeding five percent in some regions. The African Successes series looks at recent improvements in living standards and other measures of development in many African countries with an eye toward identifying what shaped them and the extent to which lessons learned are transferable and can guide policy in other nations and at the international level. The first volume in the series, African Successes: Governments and Institutions considers the role governments and institutions have played in recent developments and identifies the factors that enable economists to predict the way institutions will function.

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