Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/3494 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
Kiel Working Paper No. 1241
Publisher: 
Kiel Institute for World Economics (IfW), Kiel
Abstract: 
We consider whether Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries are mainly poor because they are governed worse than other countries, as suggested by recent studies on the supremacy of institutions. Our empirical results show that the supremacy of institutions does not hold. SSA countries appear to face very specific development problems. Given their geographic and economic constraints, we conclude that SSA countries are on average not governed worse than other comparable countries. Our finding supports the basic argument of a recent UN report (UN Millennium Project 2005). However, we find that the UN report is based on empirical evidence that appears to imply the supremacy of institutions.
Subjects: 
Institutions
Disease ecology
Sub-Saharan Africa
Development
JEL: 
O1
O4
Document Type: 
Working Paper

Files in This Item:
File
Size
414.57 kB





Items in EconStor are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.