Africa's Growth Tragedy: Policies and Ethnic Divisions
- 1 November 1997
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Quarterly Journal of Economics
- Vol. 112 (4), 1203-1250
- https://doi.org/10.1162/003355300555466
Abstract
Explaining cross-country differences in growth rates requires not only an understanding of the link between growth and public policies, but also an uKeywords
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