This article provides a survey of a growing body of empirical evidence that points toward the
important long-term effects that historic events can have on economic development. The …

The Monterrey Consensus includes the idea that foreign aid is more effective when targeted
to countries with sound institutions. We examine the extent to which foreign aid, bilateral and …

We analyze the growth impact of official development assistance to developing countries.
Our approach is different from that of previous studies in two major ways. First, we …

Recent studies have found evidence linking Africa's current under-development to colonial
rule and the slave trade. Given that these events ended long ago, why do they continue to …

The conventional wisdom embodied in public policy discourse, popular media
representations, and much social science research about intergroup disparity has it that …

The land abundance view of African history uses sparse population to explain pre‐colonial
land tenure and slavery. I document the geographical forcing variables that predict land …

The article features a temporal approach to analyzing the impact of Western colonialism on
contemporary levels of democracy. We present a new data set with dates of colonization …

A substantial body of literature suggests that financial market development plays a
significant role in economic growth through fostering savings mobilization, easing risk …

This paper considers whether trade between China and sub‐Saharan Africa results in
productivity‐enhancing technology transfers to sub‐Saharan African manufacturing firms. As …

Over the past decades, a substantial volume of literature has dwelt on the subject of
colonization and economic performance of former colonies. 1 Economists became …