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Olu Ajakaiye

Olu Ajakaiye is Research Director at the African Economic Research Consortium.

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It is important to explore—as Edward Miguel does—the factors responsible for the contemporary growth in sub-Saharan Africa because we have been here before. In the first decade after independence, sub-Saharan countries recorded...
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