“…1.5 Simulating Policy scenarios for Diversification 1.5.1 Explaining determinants of economic growth in Chad (1990Chad ( -2015 14 12 The sample of African countries studied in McMillan et al (2014) includes nine--mostly English speaking--countries: Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mauritious, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa and Zambia. Our findings, however, corroborate those for other African countries that also differ from the seemingly representative African regional pattern, including Nigeria and Zambia (for certain sub-periods), Tanzania (Haile, 2016) and Niger (Daki and Lopez-Calix,2017). 13 The results for Chad are not exactly comparable to those of the regions because we applied a slightly different base period and per-capita figures when computing the decomposition used in McMillan et al (2014).…”