Ruggedness: The Blessing of Bad Geography in Africa

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Preprint , Other literature type 01 Feb 2012 United States English Publisher:MIT Press - JournalsJournal:Review of Economics and Statistics, volume 94, pages 20-36 (issn: 0034-6535, eissn: 1530-9142,

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Authors: Nunn, Nathan; Puga, Diego;

doi: 10.1162/rest_a_00161

Ruggedness: The Blessing of Bad Geography in Africa

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Abstract

Abstract We show that geography, through its impact on history, can have important effects on economic development today. The analysis focuses on the historic interaction between ruggedness and Afr...

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United States

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Keywords

330, Africa; economic development; geography; slave trades; terrain ruggedness, terrain ruggedness, slave trades, Africa, geography, economic development, jel: jel:N40, jel: jel:O13, jel: jel:O11, jel: jel:N50

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