Success stories from emerging Africa

Journal of Democracy

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 87-101

  Radelet, Steven ^a  

^a CENTER FOR GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

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EID: 77958548130     PISSN: 10455736     EISSN: 10863214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/jod.2010.0000     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. Poverty rates, based on a poverty line of US$1.25 in purchasing power per day (US$450 per year), are drawn from the World Bank PovcalNet database online. See also Shaohua Chen and Martin Ravallion, "The Developing World Is Poorer than We Thought, but No Less Successful in the Fight Against Poverty," World Bank Policy Research Working Paper no. 4703, August 2008; available at http://go.worldbank.org/KMTYCLRA30. Unless otherwise stated, all other data are drawn from the World Bank's "World Development Indicators" online.
2. See, for example, Carrie Manning, "Mozambique's Slide into One-Party Rule," Journal of Democracy 21 (April 2010): 151-65.
3. For an excellent and very readable overview of the main issues, trends, and players in Africa's contemporary development, see Todd Moss, African Development: Making Sense of the Issues and Actors (Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner, 2007).
4. Steven Radelet, Emerging Africa: How 17 Countries Are Leading the Way (Washington, D.C.: Center for Global Development, 2010)
5. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Steven Radelet, "The Good News Out of Africa: Democracy, Stability, and the Renewal of Growth and Development," Center for Global Development Essay (2008), available at www.cgdev.org/content/ publications/detail/15416.
6. Benno Ndulu et al., eds., The Political Economy of Economic Growth in Africa, 1960-2000, vols. 1 and 2 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007).
7. For a recent contribution that provides strong evidence in favor of democracies over nondemocracies, see Morton H. Halperin, Joseph T. Siegle, and Michael M. Weinstein, The Democracy Advantage: How Democracies Promote Prosperity and Peace (New York: Routledge, 2010).
8. See Jeffrey D. Sachs et al., "Ending Africa's Poverty Trap," Brookings Papers on Economic Activity 1 (2004): 117-216
9. Jeffrey D. Sachs, The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Times (New York: Penguin, 2006).
10. Jeffrey D. Sachs and Andrew M. Warner, "Natural Resource Abundance and Economic Growth," National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. W5398, December 1995.
11. For an earlier exposition of this idea, see Alan Gelb, Oil Windfalls: Blessing or Curse? (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988).
12. Paul Collier, The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007).