Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/36291 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 4817
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
State fragility
Africa
institutions
colonial history
JEL: 
O43
H11
N17
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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