“After years of study in Europe, the young narrator returns to his village along the Nile in the Sudan. It is the 1960s, and he is eager to…
Advances of science may take much longer to translate into helpful societal actions without deliberate linkages among policy makers,…
This paper studies the relationship between civil war and the value of firms in a poor, resource-abundant country using microeconomic data…
This paper studies kinship band networks as capital market institutions. Membership in a community where individuals are dynastically…
This paper investigates the determinants of group membership, and in particular the effect of income inequality on individual incentives to…
The eruption of Mount Nyiragongo has made the situation dramatically worse for the people of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. But this…
“In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored…