 Ethnic Inclusiveness of the Central State Government and Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan AfricaFrédéric Gaspart () and Pierre Pecher Post-Print from HAL Abstract: We estimate the effect of the share of ethnic groups included in the central government on economic growth, distinguishing between democracies and autocracies in a panel of 41 Sub-Saharan African countries over the period from independence to 1999. We exploit evidence from the Ethnic Power Relations database, which categorises the politically relevant ethnic groups regarding access to state power. We take advantage of the time variation of political participation, using Fixed-Effects and Difference-GMM estimations. Our dynamic-panel growth models display a robust positive effect of the proportion of included groups in democracies. Such an effect is offset in autocracies, and the difference is often significant. This finding withstands the introduction of various controls, outlier tests, and specification checks. Our results support the view that institutional improvements must accompany the promotion of inclusiveness in low-income and weakly-institutionalised countries. Keywords: growth regressions; ethnic coalitions; institutions (search for similar items in EconPapers) Published in Journal of African Economies, 2019, 28 (2), pp.176-201. ⟨10.1093/jae/ejy020⟩ There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:hal-02164102 DOI: 10.1093/jae/ejy020 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Post-Print from HAL |
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