The long-term impact of Italian colonial roads in the Horn of Africa, 1935-2000
Between 1935 and 1940 the Italians built an extensive road network to facilitate the occupation of Ethiopia and secure control over the Horn of Africa, but were expelled in 1941. This provides a unique case study to examine the long-run effect of cheap transport networks on the concentration of econ...
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London School of Economics and Political Science
2018
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