Arbeitspapier
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.
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Englisch
- ISBN
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978-91-980438-5-3
- Erschienen in
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Series: African Economic History Working Paper Series ; No. 6/2012
- Klassifikation
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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
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Africa
Slavery
States
colonialism
economic development
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Bezemer, Dirk
Bolt, Jutta
Lenzink, Robert
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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African Economic History Network (AEHN)
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s.l.
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2012
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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20.09.2024, 08:21 MESZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Bezemer, Dirk
- Bolt, Jutta
- Lenzink, Robert
- African Economic History Network (AEHN)
Entstanden
- 2012