The long-term impact of Italian colonial roads in the Horn of Africa, 1935-2015
This article exploits the quasi-natural experiment provided by the extensive road network that was built across the Horn of Africa during the Italian occupation of Ethiopia (1936–1941), to examine how a first-mover advantage in transportation can affect the spatial distribution of economic activity...
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Oxford University Press
2021
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