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Ruggedness : The Blessing of Bad Geography in Africa

Nunn, Nathan - 2009

There is controversy about whether geography matters mainly because of its contemporaneous impact on economic outcomes or because of its interaction with historical events. Looking at terrain ruggedness, we are able to estimate the importance of these two channels. Because rugged terrain hinders...

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The Slave Trade and the Origins of Mistrust in Africa

Nunn, Nathan - 2009

We investigate the historical origins of mistrust within Africa. Combining contemporary household survey data with historic data on slave shipments, we show that individuals whose ancestors were heavily raided during the slave trade today exhibit less trust in neighbors, relatives, and their...

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The Long-Term Effects of Africa's Slave Trades

Nunn, Nathan - 2007

Can part of Africa's current underdevelopment be explained by its slave trades? To explore this question, I use data from shipping records and historical documents reporting slave ethnicities to construct estimates of the number of slaves exported from each country during Africa's slave trades....

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The Origins of Financial Development : How the African Slave Trade Continues to Influence Modern Finance

Levine, Ross - 2017

We assess how the African slave trade--which had enduring effects on social cohesion--continues to influence financial systems. After showing that the intensity with which people were enslaved and exported from Africa during the 1400 - 1900 period helps account for overall financial development,...

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Slavery, Statehood and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Bezemer, Dirk; Bolt, Jutta; Lenzink, Robert - African Economic History Network - 2012

This paper addresses the long-term impact of Sub-Saharan Africa’s indigenous systems of slavery on its political and … develop a theory to account for this based on the framework proposed by North et al. (2009), where indigenous slavery may have … indigenous slavery is robustly and negatively associated with the quality of governance and with current income levels. …

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