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Africa before colonisation was not stagnant for lacking states: states formed where they paid, and other arrangements suited other places.

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Subjectgovernment
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government What states are for and what they are worse at than markets and networks: legitimacy, moral hazard, and who may be entrusted with power.

What Oliver Kim actually said

  1. Oliver Kim Development economist and economic historian who writes…
    African states formed where it was rational to do so, in places like the Ethiopian highlands where population density was high and the disease burden was relatively low.

    Where this was said

    ↗No, South Korea Was Not Poorer Than Kenya in 1960global-developments.org

    21 Jan 2025

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