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hypothesis is that, in sub-Saharan Africa, the slave trade represents the deep factor behind contemporary attitudes toward …
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hypothesis is that, in sub-Saharan Africa, the slave trade represents the deep factor behind contemporary attitudes toward … underlying link between trust and the slave trade is confirmed. Alternative factors - conflict, kinship, and witchcraft beliefs …
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hypothesis is that, in sub-Saharan Africa, the slave trade represents the deep factor behind contemporary attitudes toward …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012805676
hypothesis is that, in sub-Saharan Africa, the slave trade represents the deep factor behind contemporary attitudes toward … underlying link between trust and the slave trade is confirmed. Alternative factors-conflict, kinship, and witchcraft beliefs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012807784
in Angola from early 1998 to date, during and in the immediate aftermath of the recent conflict. Angola has suffered from … one of the longest running conflicts in Africa. Originally a battleground for a proxy war between the Cold War superpowers …, the conflict developed its own self sustaining dynamic in the 1990s fuelled by revenue from oil and diamonds. The impact …
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esector and allocate military reosurces between conflict and coercion, which captures more land and labour respectively. The … Russia, and the prevalence of slavery in West Africa. The second result explains why coercion decreased in the Kivu privinces … monopoly, but conflict between Spanish and Portuguese colonies escalated during the boom, reducing their coercive power. It …
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This paper assesses the accuracy and mainly the impact of multinational corporations on performing construction, as well as the basic services supply in fragile social economic conditions in Sudan. It reveals that within Sudan state weakness and poor conditions in peripheries, war zone areas in...
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We estimate the impact of geo-located mining concessions on the number of conflict events recorded in the Democratic …
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African societies exported more slaves in colder years. Lower temperatures reduced mortality and raised agricultural yields, lowering slave supply costs. Our results help explain African participation in the slave trade, which predicts adverse outcomes today. We use an annual panel of African...
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trade, slavery and early colonialism were linked to human capital formation, but this connection appears to have been … quickly than inner areas. This pattern was affected by French early colonialism and by the reaction of different West African …
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