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Title:Solving the Mysteries of the AFRICA Dummy
Author:Englebert, PierreISNI
Year:2000
Periodical:World Development
Volume:28
Issue:10
Period:October
Pages:1821-1835
Language:English
Geographic term:Africa
Subjects:legitimacy
Development and Technology
Politics and Government
Economics and Trade
External link:https://doi.org/10.1016/S0305-750X(00)00052-8
Abstract:This paper tests the hypothesis that the relative lack of historical legitimacy of African States magnifies their propensity to adopt neopatrimonial policies with their attendant negative effects on growth. One would expect, therefore, to see neopatrimonial policies as an inverse function of levels of State legitimacy and to find no residual negative effect on growth of being an African country once levels of State legitimacy are controlled for. The author uses a cross-sectional data set covering the 1960 (or independence)-1992 period for up to 133 countries. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum.
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