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Gold mining and education: a long-run resource curse in Africa?
(2016-06)
We provide micro-level evidence on an important channel through which mineral resources may adversely affect development in the long-run: lower educational attainment. Combining Afrobarometer survey data with geocoded data ...
Fiscal Capacity and Government Accountability in Sub-Saharan Africa
(2011-06)
Historical evidence from the developed world suggests that the expansion of the mod-
ern states’ fiscal capacity (i. e. its ability to tax citizens) eventually led to more democratic
and less corrupt governments. Since ...