@article {207546,
	title = {The Political Origins of the Africa{\textquoteright}s Economic Revival},
	year = {2014},
	abstract = {Writing in the 1990{\textquoteright}s, William Easterly and Ross Levine famously labeled Africa a {\textquotedblleft}growth tragedy{\textquotedblright}.1 Less than twenty years later, Alwyn Young noted Africa{\textquoteright}s {\textquotedblleft}growth miracle{\textquotedblright}2, while Steven Radelet less effusively pointed to an Africa that was {\textquotedblleft}emerging{\textquotedblright} and noted its rising rate of economic growth, improving levels of education and health care, and increasing levels of investment in basic infrastructure: roads, ports, and transport3. In this paper, we address Africa{\textquoteright}s economic revival. In doing so, we also stress the political changes that have taken place on the continent. Once notorious for its tyrants {\textendash} Jean---Bedel Bokassa, Idi Amin, and Mobutu Sese Seko, to name but three {\textendash} in the 1990s, Africa joined the last wave of democratization; self---appointed heads of state were replaced by rulers chosen in competitive elections. In this paper, we assert that the two sets of changes {\textendash} the one economic and the other political {\textendash} go together, and that, indeed, changes in Africa{\textquoteright}s political institutions lent significant impetus to its economic revival.},
	author = {Bates, Robert H. and Block, Steven}
}
