Summary:
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Africa's roads were originally built so that colonial powers could extract its natural wealth. What has happened since then? Steven Poelhekke of the University of Auckland examines the maps with Tim Phillips.

Topics:
Poelhekke considers the following as important:

This could be interesting, too:

Bastian, Lochner writes The Earned Income Tax Credit: Increasing mothers’ work hours without adverse effects on children

Grosjean, Masera, Yousaf writes Racial prejudice, dog-whistle politics, and police behaviour

Diebold writes Measuring real activity in real time

Rohner writes Boiling point in Africa