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Current research has yielded an
increasingly refined debate over the resilience
of the
Africa dummy variable in cross-national economic growth studies.
Whereas the dummy has generally
been one of a set of stock control variables, scholars have started to
unravel its effects and
determine what it is about sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) that makes its
countries systematically grow
so slowly. This paper explores attempts to account for the Africa dummy
in recent writings on
economic growth, showing that previous attempts to account for slow
African growth via geographic impediments and state legitimacy are
insufficient. It refocuses the debate on ethnicity within African
societies, showing that ethnic divisions, once properly modeled via
interaction terms with governing institutions, finally account for the
AFRICA dummy. |
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Name: The Midwest Political Science Association
URL: http://www.indiana.edu/~mpsa/
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MLA Citation:
| Corstange, Dan. "Of AFRICA and ELF: New Findings onthe Effects of Ethnic Divisions on African Economic Growth" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the The Midwest Political Science Association, Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, Illinois, Apr 15, 2004 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p83713_index.html> |
APA Citation:
| Corstange, D. , 2004-04-15 "Of AFRICA and ELF: New Findings onthe Effects of Ethnic Divisions on African Economic Growth" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the The Midwest Political Science Association, Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, Illinois Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p83713_index.html |
Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: Current research has yielded an
increasingly refined debate over the resilience
of the
Africa dummy variable in cross-national economic growth studies.
Whereas the dummy has generally
been one of a set of stock control variables, scholars have started to
unravel its effects and
determine what it is about sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) that makes its
countries systematically grow
so slowly. This paper explores attempts to account for the Africa dummy
in recent writings on
economic growth, showing that previous attempts to account for slow
African growth via geographic impediments and state legitimacy are
insufficient. It refocuses the debate on ethnicity within African
societies, showing that ethnic divisions, once properly modeled via
interaction terms with governing institutions, finally account for the
AFRICA dummy. |
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| Of AFRICA and ELF : New Findings on the Effects of Ethnic Divisions on African Economic Growth Paper prepared for presentation at the 2004 conference of the Midwest Political Science Association Chicago IL. Dan Corstange Dept. of Political Science University of Michigan A perennial question for social scientists and policymakers alike is a deceptively simple one: why do African economies grow so slowly compared with the rest of the world? Africa’s growth tragedy has no lack of potential explanations. |
| ernal Shocks Social Conflict and Growth Collapses ” Journal of Economic Growth v. 4: 385-412. Sachs J. and Warner A. (1997) “Sources of Slow Growth in African Economies ” Journal of African Economics v. 6 n. 3: 335-376. Sala-i-Martin X (1997). “I Just Ran Two Million Regressions.” American Economic Review v. 87 n. 2. Shleifer A. and Vishny R. (1993) “Corruption ” Quarterly Journal of Economics v. 108 n. 3: 599-617. van de Walle N. (2001) African Economies and |
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