Jesus Crespo Cuaresma, "How different is Africa? A comment on Masanjala 
and Papageorgiou (2008)", Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol. 26,
No. 6, 2011, pp. 1041-1047.

This paper is a comment on

W.H. Masanjala and V. Papageorgiou, "Rough and Lonely Road to Prosperity: A
Reexamination of the Sources of Growth in Africa Using Bayesian Model
Averaging", Journal of Applied Econometrics, 23, 2008, 671-682.

The data may be found here:

  http://www.econ.queensu.ca/jae/2008-v23.5/masanjala-papageorgiou/

They are also included in the file data.txt.

The file bma_africa.r contains the R code needed to replicate the main
results in the replication paper. It calls the file aux_bma_20081105.r and
uses data in data.txt.

All three files are ASCII files in DOS format. They are zipped in the file
jcc-files.zip. Unix/Linux users should use "unzip -a".