The Long-Run Effects of the Scramble for Africa

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Michalopoulos, Stelios; Papaioannou, Elias
• 署名单位: Brown University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; University of London; London Business School
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0002-8282
• DOI: 10.1257/aer.20131311
• 发表日期: 2016
• 页码: 1802-1848
• 关键词: ARMED CONFLICT; institutions; ETHNICITY; origins; determinants; TRADE; MODEL

摘要

We explore the consequences of ethnic partitioning, a neglected aspect of the Scramble for Africa, and uncover the following. First, apart from the land mass and water bodies, split and non-split groups are similar across several dimensions. Second, the incidence, severity, and duration of political violence are all higher for partitioned homelands which also experience frequent military interventions from neighboring countries. Third, split groups are often entangled in a vicious circle of government-led discrimination and ethnic wars. Fourth, respondents from survey data identifying with split ethnicities are economically disadvantaged. The evidence highlights the detrimental repercussions of the colonial border design.