PRE-COLONIAL ETHNIC INSTITUTIONS AND CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT
PRE-COLONIAL ETHNIC INSTITUTIONS AND CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT
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DOI：
10.3982/ecta9613
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发表时间：
2013-01-01
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影响因子：
6.1
通讯作者：
Papaioannou, Elias
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作者：
Michalopoulos, Stelios;Papaioannou, Elias
我们调查在非洲国家内形成比较区域发展的根深蒂固的前殖民民族机构的作用。我们将殖民前种族的空间分布信息与当代经济表现的区域差异结合起来，以夜间光密度的卫星图像为代表。我们记录了前殖民时期民族政治集中化与区域发展之间的强烈联系。这种模式不是由当地地理特征的差异或其他可观察到的特定种族的文化和经济变量驱动的。前殖民时期政治复杂性与当代发展之间强烈的积极联系也存在于具有不同前殖民时期政治制度遗产的相邻民族家园中。
We investigate the role of deeply rooted pre-colonial ethnic institutions in shaping comparative regional development within African countries. We combine information on the spatial distribution of ethnicities before colonization with regional variation in contemporary economic performance, as proxied by satellite images of light density at night. We document a strong association between pre-colonial ethnic political centralization and regional development. This pattern is not driven by differences in local geographic features or by other observable ethnic-specific cultural and economic variables. The strong positive association between pre-colonial political complexity and contemporary development also holds within pairs of adjacent ethnic homelands with different legacies of pre-colonial political institutions.