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Slavery, Statehood and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

This paper addresses the long-term impact of Sub-Saharan Africa's indigenous systems of slavery on its political and economic development, based on an analytical survey of the literature and data collected from anthropological records. We develop a theory to account for this based on the framework proposed by North et al. (2009), where indigenous slavery may have impeded the transition from a 'limited access state' centred around personal relations to an 'open access state' based on impersonal rule of law and widely shared access to public and private organisations. In a quantitative analysis we find that indigenous slavery is robustly and negatively associated with the quality of governance and with current income levels.

Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-91-980438-5-3

Erschienen in
Series: African Economic History Working Paper Series ; No. 6/2012

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Economic History: Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations: Africa; Oceania
Economic History: Financial Markets and Institutions: Africa; Oceania
Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: Africa; Oceania
Economic History: Government, War, Law, International Relations, and Regulation: Africa; Oceania
Economic History: Agriculture, Natural Resources, Environment, and Extractive Industries: Africa; Oceania
Thema
Africa
Slavery
States
colonialism
economic development

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Bezemer, Dirk
Bolt, Jutta
Lenzink, Robert
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
African Economic History Network (AEHN)
(wo)
s.l.
(wann)
2012

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Bezemer, Dirk
  • Bolt, Jutta
  • Lenzink, Robert
  • African Economic History Network (AEHN)

Entstanden

  • 2012

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