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We explore the effect of historical ethnic borders on contemporary conflict in Africa. We document that both the … intensive and extensive margins of contemporary conflict are higher close to historical ethnic borders. Exploiting variations … find that regions crossed by historical ethnic borders have 27 percentage points higher probability of conflict and 7 …

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Middleman minorities and ethnic violence : anti-Jewish pogroms in the Russian Empire

Grosfeld, Irena; Sakalli, Seyhun Orcan; Zhuravskaya, … - In: The review of economic studies : RES 87 (2020) 1, pp. 289-342

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'How Does Colonial Origin Matter for Economic Performance in Sub-Saharan Africa'

Fedderke, Johannes Wolfgang - 2013

legacies to modern day economic performance in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). It focuses on four key channels of transmission namely …

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Governing water in India : inequality, reform, and the state

Fernandes, Leela - 2022

"Intensifying droughts and competing pressures on water resources foreground water scarcity as an urgent concern of the global climate change crisis. In India, individual, industrial, and agricultural water demands exacerbate inequities of access and expose the failures of state governance to...