Pre-Colonial Ethnic Institutions and Contemporary African Development

Elias Papaioannou, Stelios Michalopoulos, Sun, 07/29/2012

This paper investigates the role of deep-rooted pre-colonial ethnic institutions in shaping comparative regional development within African countries. The authors find that regional development is significantly higher in the historical homelands of ethnicities with centralised, hierarchical, pre-colonial political institutions.

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Topics:  Development

Tags:  Africa, regional development, ethnicity

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