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Le Breton, Michel
, Castañeda Dower, Paul, Gokmen, Gunes and Вебер, Шломо
(2026)
Did the Cold War Produce Development Clusters in Africa.
Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 182.
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Abstract
We examine the lasting impact of Cold War alignment on African development. To overcome the empirical challenge of ambiguous and interdependent international alliances during the Cold War, we introduce a non-cooperative game of social interactions. Using pre-determined, country-level characteristics to construct payoffs, we identify a unique two-bloc equilibrium partition of the continent. We then assign bloc alignments based on how the partition predicts UN voting patterns. Our empirical results indicate no income differences today between the Western and the Eastern blocs. However, their development paths reflect Cold War ideologies: Western-aligned African countries have greater inequality, financial development, and democracy, but lesser infrastructure, compared to Eastern-aligned ones.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Language: | English |
| Date: | June 2026 |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Cold War, Political Alliances, Africa, Blocs, Development Clusters, Strong, Guerre froide, Alliances politiques, Afrique, Blocs, Pôles de développement,, Nash Equilibrium, Landscape Theory., Equilibre de Nash fort, Théorie du paysage. |
| JEL Classification: | C62 - Existence and Stability Conditions of Equilibrium C72 - Noncooperative Games F54 - Colonialism; Imperialism; Postcolonialism F55 - International Institutional Arrangements N47 - Africa; Oceania O19 - International Linkages to Development; Role of International Organizations O57 - Comparative Studies of Countries Y10 - Dat - Tables and Charts |
| Subjects: | B- ECONOMIE ET FINANCE |
| Divisions: | TSE-R (Toulouse) |
| Site: | UT1 |
| Date Deposited: | 31 Mar 2026 08:44 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Sep 2026 09:22 |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:tse-fr.eu:131649 |
| URI: | https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/52923 |
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