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Description:
We use two sets of cross-country growth regression models to investigate the determinants of the growth rates in African countries between 1960 and 2000. Both sets of models contradict conclusions based on global samples: within Africa, we find greater coastal population and distance from the equator unhelpful and greater ethnic heterogeneity helpful to growth. Our results confirm the negative effects of corruption and civil wars and the positive effects of trade openness, political rights and political openness, and suggest that these institutional and policy variables are endogenous to geographic and historical factors including the colonizing power and the religious and ethnic make-up of the country