Diversification in the former colonies: The importance of history

Diversification dans les ex-colonies: l’importance de l’histoire

Hibrahim Limi Kouotou (), Achille Jean Baptiste Nsoe Nkouli (), Joseph Keneck-Massil (), Youssouf Nvuh-Njoya () and Vincent de Paul Mboutchouang ()
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Hibrahim Limi Kouotou: Université de Yaoundé II
Achille Jean Baptiste Nsoe Nkouli: Université de Yaoundé II
Joseph Keneck-Massil: Cemotev - Centre d'études sur la mondialisation, les conflits, les territoires et les vulnérabilités - UVSQ - Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
Youssouf Nvuh-Njoya: Université de Yaoundé II
Vincent de Paul Mboutchouang: Université de Yaoundé II

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Abstract: This paper examines the effect of the historical past on the level of contemporary diversification of the former colonies. Following the work of Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson [2001] and Easterly and Levine [2016], this article shows that settler mortality, the settlement rate of settlers in ex-colonies and the percentage of the European population among the indigenous people affect the level of diversification of former colonies. This result is robust while controlling by historical, economic, sociocultural and institutional variables. The results obtained by an analysis in OLS are consolidated through a GETS approach. In the same way, this article exposes two main channels through which history influences diversification: the channel of institutions and human capital.

Keywords: Settler mortality; Cliometrics; Colonization; Diversification; European sedentarization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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Published in Revue Economique, 2021, 72 (3), pp.459-489. ⟨10.3917/reco.pr2.0169⟩

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DOI: 10.3917/reco.pr2.0169

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