Series Introduction
Sebastian Edwards, Simon Johnson, and David N. Weil
Volume Introduction
Sebastian Edwards, Simon Johnson, and David N. Weil
I. Political Economy and Conflict
1. Healing the Wounds: Learning from Sierra Leone’s Postwar Institutional Reforms
Katherine Casey, Rachel Glennerster, and Edward Miguel
2. The Political Economy of Government Revenues in Postconflict Resource-Rich Africa: Liberia and Sierra Leone
Victor A. B. Davies and Sylvain Dessy
3. Does Decentralization Facilitate Access to Poverty-Related Services? Evidence from Benin
Emilie Caldeira, Martial Foucault, and Grégoire Rota-Graziosi
4. Demographic Pressure and Institutional Change: Village-Level Response to Rural Population Growth in Burkina Faso
Margaret S. McMillan, William A. Masters, and Harounan Kazianga
5. New Tools for the Analysis of Political Power in Africa
Ilia Rainer and Francesco Trebbi
II. Government Regulation and Basic Institutions
6. Deals versus Rules: Policy Implementation Uncertainty and Why Firms Hate It
Mary Hallward-Driemeier, Gita Khun-Jush, and Lant Pritchett
7. The Unofficial Economy in Africa
Rafael La Porta and Andrei Shleifer
8. State versus Consumer Regulation: An Evaluation of Two Road Safety Interventions in Kenya
James Habyarimana and William Jack
III. Long-Run Assessments
9. Fifteen Years On: Household Incomes in South Africa
Murray Leibbrandt and James Levinsohn
10. Is Tanzania a Success Story? A Long-Term Analysis
Sebastian Edwards
Contributors
Author Index
Subject Index