Castaneda Dower, Paul; Gokmen, Gunes; Le Breton, Michel; … - 2021
economic development. We find that the division of the continent into two blocs (East/West) led to two clusters of development … interactions where each country chooses one of the two existing blocs based on its predetermined bilateral similarities with other … approach, linking global political interdependence to distinct development paths in Africa, relies on history to extract a …