Political Institutions And Economic Growth In Africa

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Political Institutions And Economic Growth In Africa

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Janvier Nkurunziza (Centre for the Study of African Economies)
Robert Bates (Harvard University)

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Robert H. Bates

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The purpose of this paper include (a) a review of the literature on the so-called 'African dummy', (b) an explication of the system GMM method of estimation, by which Hoeffler(2002) shows the 'African dummy' to be an artifact of the application of inappropriate estimation techniques; and (c) an effort to employ this technique to measure the impact of political variables - measures of stability, regime type, and violence - on economic growth in Africa.

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NEP-AFR-2004-09-30 (Africa)
NEP-ALL-2004-09-30 (All new papers)
NEP-DEV-2004-09-30 (Development)
NEP-POL-2004-09-30 (Positive Political Economics)

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