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Periodical article | Leiden University catalogue | WorldCat |
Title: | Solving the Mysteries of the AFRICA Dummy |
Author: | Englebert, Pierre |
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. |