Year: 2006
Type: report
Abstract: Africa and Latin America secured their independence from European colonial rule a century and half apart: most of Latin America after 1820 and most of Africa after 1960.Despite the distance in time and space, they share important similarities.In each case independence was followed by political instability, violent conflict and economic stagnation lasting for about a half-century (lost decades).The parallels suggest that Africa might be exiting from a period of post-imperial collapse and entering a period of relative political stability and economic growth, as did Latin America a century and a half earlier.
DOI: 10.3386/w12610
Institutions: National Bureau of Economic Research, Harvard University
Language: English
Subfield: Demography
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1565294597