The persistence or reversal of subnational fortune in South Africa
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Does wealth persist over time despite historical shocks like colonisation? One strand of literature suggests no: Acemoglu et al. argue that colonisation brought bad institutions to most of sub-Saharan Africa that caused a ‘reversal of fortune’. Another strand of literature suggests the opposite: despite several centuries of colonialism in Latin America, Valencia and Caicedo argue, ‘persistence dominate’. This paper uses the case of South Africa to show that while populations persist, wealth does not. Densely populated regions before colonialism are still densely populated. But institutional differences imposed by the colonial authorities caused a subnational divergence in the fortunes of the indigenous population, reflected in unemployment outcomes today.
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