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| Author: | Alesina, A. Easterly, W. Matuszeski, J. |
| Title: | Artificial states |
| Journal: | Journal of the European Economic Association
2011 : APR, VOL. 9:2 p. 246-277 |
| Index terms: | ethnic groups colonialism border regions development |
| Freeterms: | political science |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | We outline artificial states as those where political borders do not coincide with a division of nationalities the people on the ground desire. We present and compute for most countries in the world two measures of the extent to which borders may be artificial. The first measures how borders split ethnic groups into two adjacent countries, while the second measures the straightness of land borders, under the assumption of straight land borders being more likely to be artificial. We then demonstrate that these two measures are correlated with a variety of measures of political and economic success. |
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