Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/95940 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
QUCEH Working Paper Series No. 14-02
Publisher: 
Queen's University Centre for Economic History (QUCEH), Belfast
Abstract: 
We argue that the partition of ethnic groups following the Scramble for Africa does not itself matter for development in Africa. It matters only when the partitioned groups are relatively small because small groups lack political representation which may promote ethnic mobilization and foster support for informal (rather than formal) institutions which then may a ect development. Furthermore, the analysis of data from the Afrobarometer shows that the persistence of informal/tribal institutions related to property rights and the rule of law is one of the possible channels through which the size of the partitioned group a ects development
Subjects: 
partition
ethnic groups
development
JEL: 
O10
N17
N47
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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