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Africa Research Program
Welcome to the Africa Research Program at Harvard University. The Program, which focuses on the political economy of sub-Saharan Africa, possesses a research component and an information component. In our research, we study the development of African political institutions; the political determinants of investment and economic growth; and the relationships between ethnicity, human capital, institutions, political participation and violence. Through the information component of the program, we aim to encourage quantitative research in African political economy by surveying, collecting and centralizing comparable political and economic data on sub-Saharan Africa. This part of the program aims to make data more accessible for researchers. More broadly however, it hopes to point to holes in our knowledge and, in addition, encourage researchers active in the discipline to collect and share important political and economic data.
The program has benefited greatly from the financial support of the National Science Foundation, the World Bank, Harvard's Center for International Development, and the U. S. Institute of Peace as well as from the support of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.
Although the Africa Research Program no longer resides
at CID,
more information can be found on this web site.
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Robert Bates
Karen Feree
James Habyarimana
Macartan Humphreys
Smita Singh
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Saving in Sub-Saharan Africa
Ernest Aryeetey and Christopher Udry
CID Working Paper No. 38, January 2000
Characteristics and Behaviour
of African Factor Markets and Market Institutions and Their Consequences for
Economic Growth
Adeola F. Adenikinju and Olugboyega Oyeranti
CID Working Paper No. 31, December 1999
Ethnicity, Capital Formation,
and Conflict
Robert H. Bates
CID Working Paper No. 27, October 1999
Framework Paper on the Political Economy of African Growth
Robert H. Bates and Shantayanan
Devarajan
(forthcoming in CID Working Paper Series)
Organizing Violence
Robert Bates, Avner Greif, and Smita Singh
CID Working Paper No. 71, June 2001
Through a Different Optic? Ethnicity and Development in Africa
Robert H. Bates and Irene Yackovlev
Presented at the 2001 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science
Association, San Francisco, August 30-September 2, 2001
Institutional Change and Economic Performance in Africa, 1970-1995
Karen Ferree and Smita Singh
(forthcoming in CID Working Paper Series)
The Augmented Solow Model and the
African Growth Debate
Anke E. Hoeffler
CID Working Paper No. 36, January 2000
Economic Policies in Africa: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Macartan Humphreys and Robert Bates
Paper prepared for delivery at the 2001 Annual Meeting of the American
Political Science Association, San Francisco, August 30-September 2, 2001
Background Information on Political Institutions and
Political Behavior
Macartan Humphreys
(Support Document for AERC Country Authors)
March 2000
Political Competition in Weak
States
Eliana LaFerrara and Robert H. Bates
CID Working Paper No. 68, June 2001
Africa's Growth Experience: A
Focus on Sources of Growth
Stephen A. O’Connell and Benno J. Ndulu
April 2000
African Land Ecology:
Opportunities and Constraints for Agricultural Development
R. L. Voortman, B. G. J. S. Sonneveld, and M. A. Keyzer
CID Working Paper No. 37, January 2000
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For more information about the Africa Research Program, please contact Professor Robert H. Bates or visit this web site. The web site on Africa data can now be found at http://africa.gov.harvard.edu.
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