Bibliography of the topic of Institutions and Development in Africa

Aron, J., 1997, The Institutional Foundations of Growth, in Ellis, S. (ed.) Africa Now: People, Policies, Institutions, The Hague: DGIS.

Borner, S., Brunetti, A. and Weder, B., 1995, Political Credibility and Economic Development.

Brunetti Aymo, Gregory Kisunko and Beatrice Weder (1997b): "Credibility of Rules and Economic Growth: Evidence from a Worldwide Survey of the Private Sector" (1997b), World Bank Policy Research Paper No. 1760, Washington DC: The World Bank

Clague, C. (ed.) 1997, Institutions and Economic Development, Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press.

Coase, R.H., 1992, 'The Institutional Structure of Production', American Economic Review, Vol. 28, No. 4, 713-720.

Collier, P., 1991, "Africa's external economic relations: 1960-1990", in African Affairs, Vol. 90 No 360, pp. 339-356.

Dia, M., 1996, Africa's Management in the 1990s and Beyond: Reconciling Indigenous and Transplanted Institutions, Washington DC: The World Bank.

Easterly, W. and Levine, R, (1995) Africa's Growth Tragedy: A Retrospective, August 1995, World Bank Working Paper 1503.

Hyden, G., 1983, No Shortcut to Progress. African Development Management in Perspective, London: Heinemann.

Karen Ferree, Smita Singh, and Robert H. Bates. "Political Institutions and Economic Growth in Africa." May 1997. 29 pp. Harvard University Occasional Papers.

Knack, Stephen and Philip Keefer (1995): "Institutions and Economic Performance: Cross-Country Tests Using Alternative Institutional Measures ", Economics and Politics 7, pp.207-227.

Nabli, M. and Nugent, J., 1989, "The new institutional economics and its applicability to development," World Development, Vol. 17, No. 9.

Nissanke, M and Aryeetey, E., 1997, Comparative Institutional Analysis: Sub-Saharan Africa and East Asia - Thematic Paper, Paper presented at the AERC conference on Comparative Development Experiences in Asia and Africa, October 1997.

North, D., 1990, Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Rauch James and Peter Evans, Bureaucratic Structure and Bureaucratic Performance in Less Developed Countries, mimeo July 1997.

Stein, H., 1994, "Theories of institutions and economic reform in Africa," World Development, Vol. 22, No 12, pp 889-904.

World Bank, 1989, Sub-Saharan Africa: From Crisis to Sustainable Growth, Washington DC: The World Bank.

World Bank, 1994, Adjustment in Africa: Reforms, Results, and the Road Ahead, Washington DC: The World Bank.

World Bank, 1997, World Development Report 1997: The State in a Changing World, Washington DC: The World Bank.