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Moralizing Gods and Armed Conflict
Skali, Ahmed - 2017
This study documents a robust empirical pattern between moralizing gods, which prescribe fixed laws of morality, and conflict prevalence and fatalities, using spatially referenced data for Africa on contemporary conflicts and ancestral belief systems of individual ethnic groups prior to European...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015254904
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Religious Diversity and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: So Far So Good
Kodila-Tedika, Oasis; Agbor, Julius - 2013
This paper investigates the effects of religion on a broad set of development outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa. We … gender protection). Using two new measures of religion – religious fractionalization (RELFRAC) and religious polarization … (RELPOL), alongside the traditional measure of religious diversity, our results suggest that broadly speaking, religion or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015236736
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Religious Diversity and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: So Far So Good
Kodila-Tedika, Oasis; Agbor, Julius - 2013
This paper investigates the effects of religion on a broad set of development outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa. We … gender protection). Using two new measures of religion – religious fractionalization (RELFRAC) and religious polarization … (RELPOL), alongside the traditional measure of religious diversity, our results suggest that broadly speaking, religion or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015244500
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The Contribution of Non-Physical Resources and Strategic Household Decision-making to Environmental and Policy Risks
Mariam, Yohannes; Galaty, John; Coffin, Garth - 1993
Physical resources such as land, labour and livestock, and nonphysical resources such as indigenous knowledge and institutions of producers in the grain surplus and deficit regions of the Central Highlands of Ethiopia are examined under situation of environmental and policy risks. Frequency...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015233478
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On the history of Jews in Sub-Saharan Africa: The case of South Africa, Nigeria, DR Congo and Ethiopia
Kohnert, Dirk - 2024
Jews in Africa have a long history. Africans have encountered Jewish myths and traditions in different forms and situations, leading to the development of a new Jewish identity linked to that of the Diaspora. Different groups of black Jews from western, central, eastern and southern Africa used...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015213282
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On the history of Jews in Sub-Saharan Africa: The case of South Africa, Nigeria, DR Congo and Ethiopia
Kohnert, Dirk - 2024
Jews in Africa have a long history. Africans have encountered Jewish myths and traditions in different forms and situations, leading to the development of a new Jewish identity linked to that of the Diaspora. Different groups of black Jews from western, central, eastern and southern Africa used...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015213299
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Sur l'histoire des Juifs en Afrique subsaharienne: Le cas de l’Afrique du Sud, du Nigeria, de la RD Congo et de l’Éthiopie
Kohnert, Dirk - 2024
The adoption of Judaism by black Africans was a form of liberation from Anglo-Christian authority. Blacks and Jews are the two marginalised and stigmatised minorities in Western culture. Since ancient times they have maintained a complex relationship of identification, cooperation and rivalry....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015213300
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Expanding Horizons: Iran's Strategic Engagements in Sub-Saharan Africa - Insights from South Africa, Nigeria, and Tanzania
Kohnert, Dirk - 2024
Since the 1960s, both the regime of Reza Pahlavi (1941-1979) and, subsequently starting from 1979 the Islamic Republic of Iran, have intervened in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). While the Shah's policies were motivated by a virulent anti-communist stance, the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) pursued a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015213846
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Élargir les horizons: les engagements stratégiques de l'Iran en Afrique subsaharienne – Études de cas d'Afrique du Sud, du Nigeria et de Tanzanie
Kohnert, Dirk - 2024
Since the 1960s, both the regime of Reza Pahlavi (1941-1979) and, subsequently starting from 1979 the Islamic Republic of Iran, have intervened in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). While the Chah's policies were motivated by a virulent anti-communist stance, the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) pursued a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015213854
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Negative Shocks and Mass Persecutions: Evidence from the Black Death
Jebwab, Remi; Johnson, Noel D; Koyama, Mark - 2017
In this paper we study the Black Death persecutions (1347-1352) against Jews in order to shed light on the factors determining when a minority group will face persecution. We develop a theoretical framework which predicts that negative shocks increase the likelihood that minorities are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015255315