Can the West Save Africa?

William Easterly

NBER Working Paper No. 14363
Issued in September 2008

---- Acknowledgements -----

I am grateful to the JEL editor, Roger Gordon, 4 anonymous referees, Chris Blattman, Angus Deaton, April Harding, Charles Kenny, Ted Miguel, Lant Pritchett, Vijaya Ramachandran, Nicolas Van de Walle, and participants in the NBER 2008 Summer Institute Workshop on Macroeconomics and Income Distribution for generously taking the time to read this (long!) manuscript and give me detailed comments. I am also grateful for research assistance to history's best RA, Tobias Pfutze. All errors are of course my responsibility. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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