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Finding Eldorado : Slavery and Long-run Development in Colombia
Acemoglu, Daron - 2012
Slavery has been a major institution of labor coercion throughout history. Colonial societies used slavery intensively … across the Americas, and slavery remained prevalent in most countries after independence from the European powers. We … investigate the impact of slavery on long-run development in Colombia. Our identification strategy compares municipalities that …
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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 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 To explore this question, I use data from shipping records and historical documents reporting slave ethnicities to construct estimates of the number of slaves exported from each country during Africa's slave trades....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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Historical Legacies and African Development
Michalopoulos, Stelios - 2018
As Africa's role on the global stage is rising, so does the need to understand the shadow of history on the continent's economy and polity. We discuss recent works that shed light on Africa's colonial and precolonial legacies. The emerging corpus is remarkably interdisciplinary. Archives,...
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Property Rights and Financial Development : The Legacy of Japanese Colonial Institutions
Yoo, Dongwoo - 2010
Several studies link modern economic performance to institutions transplanted by European colonizers and here we extend this line of research to Asia. Japan imposed its system of well-defined property rights in land on some of its Asian colonies, including Korea, Taiwan and Palau. In 1939 Japan...
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Equilibrium Fictions : A Cognitive Approach to Societal Rigidity
Hoff, Karla - 2010
the colonies that became the US after, not before, slavery; that out of the "scandal of empire" in India emerged a "race …
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The Myth of the Frontier
García-Jimeno, Camilo - 2009
One of the most salient explanations for the distinctive path of economic and political development of the United States is captured by the 'Frontier (or Turner) thesis'. Turner argued that it was the presence of the open frontier which explained why the United States became democratic and, at...
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History, path dependence and development : evidence from colonial railways, settlers and cities in Kenya
Jedwab, Remi; Kerby, Edward; Moradi, Alexander - In: The economic journal : the journal of the Royal … 127 (2017) 603, pp. 1467-1494
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The Profitabality of Colonialism
Grossman, Herschel I. - 1993
extralegal appropriation, that determine the profitability of colonialism. The analysis suggests why historically some countries …
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