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Lost Decades: Lessons from Post-Independence Latin America for Today's Africa
Bates, Robert H; Coatsworth, John H; Williamson, Jeffrey G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
Africa and Latin America secured their independence from European colonial rule a century and half apart: most of Latin America after 1820 and most of Africa after 1960. Despite the distance in time and space, they share important similarities. In each case independence was followed by political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136542
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Divide and Rule or the Rule of the Divided? Evidence from Africa
Michalopoulos, Stelios; Papaioannou, Elias - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
-specific pre-colonial institutions in shaping comparative regional development in Africa. We utilize information on the spatial … we document a positive cross-sectional association between national institutions and regional economic development … regional development. The positive within country effect of pre-colonial institutions also obtains in regions of partitioned …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008683528
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A Colonial Legacy of African Gender Inequality? Evidence from Christian Kampala, 1895-2011
Meier zu Selhausen, Felix; Weisdorf, Jacob - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
The colonial legacy of African underdevelopment is widely debated but hard to document. We use occupational statistics from Protestant marriage registers of historical Kampala to investigate the hypothesis that African gender inequality and female disempowerment are rooted in colonial times. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011145474
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Pre-colonial Ethnic Institutions and Contemporary African Development
Michalopoulos, Stelios; Papaioannou, Elias - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
We investigate the role of deeply-rooted pre-colonial ethnic institutions in shaping comparative regional development … association between pre-colonial ethnic political centralization and regional development. This pattern is not driven by … positive association between pre-colonial political complexity and contemporary development also holds within pairs of adjacent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084243
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Further Evidence on the Link between Pre-Colonial Political Centralization and Comparative Economic Development in Africa
Michalopoulos, Stelios; Papaioannou, Elias - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
We examine the link between pre-colonial statehood and contemporary regional African development, as reflected in …-country analysis reveals a strong positive correlation between pre-colonial political centralization and contemporary development (and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084301
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On the Ethnic Origins of African Development: Chiefs and Pre-colonial Political Centralization
Michalopoulos, Stelios; Papaioannou, Elias - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
shaping African development. First, using recent surveys from Sub-Saharan African countries, we document that individuals … a strong association between pre-colonial centralization and contemporary comparative development both across and within … countries. We also document that the strong link between pre-colonial political centralization and regional development -as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084579
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The Long-Run Effects of the Scramble for Africa
Michalopoulos, Stelios; Papaioannou, Elias - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
We examine the long-run consequences of the scramble for Africa among European powers in the late 19th century and uncover the following empirical regularities. First, using information on the spatial distribution of African ethnicities before colonization, we show that borders were arbitrarily...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371464