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Growth, history, or institutions? What explains state fragility in sub-Saharan Africa
We explore the determinants of state fragility in sub-Saharan Africa. Controlling for a wide range of economic, demographic, geographic and istitutional regressors, we find that institutions, and in particular the civil liberties index and the number of revolutions, are the main determinants of fragility, even taking into account their potential endogeneity. Economic factors such as income growth and investment display a non robust impact after controlling for omitted variables and reverse causality. Colonial variables reflecting the history of the region display a marginal impact on fragility once institutions are accounted for.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 4817
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Institutions and Growth
Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
Economic History: Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations: Africa; Oceania
- Subject
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State fragility
Africa
institutions
colonial history
Politische Stabilität
Institutionalismus
Kolonialismus
Wirtschaftswachstum
Afrika südlich der Sahara
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Bertocchi, Graziella
Guerzoni, Andrea
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
- (where)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2010
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Bertocchi, Graziella
- Guerzoni, Andrea
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2010
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