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Africa at a Fork in the Road: Taking Off or Disappointment Once Again?
We also include in the regression a measure of political violence (CIVTOT), using
data obtained from the Center for Systematic Peace. CIVTOT is the total summed
magnitudes of all major episodes of political violence (MEPV) involving that country
in that year. These include CIVVIOL, CIVWAR, ETHVIOL, and ETHWAR. CIVTOT
thus measures the magnitude score of episode(s) of civil violence, civil warfare,
ethnic violence, and ethnic warfare respectively involving that state in that year.
For each major episode of political violence, the scale is 1 (lowest) to 10 (highest)
depending on the magnitude of the violence or warfare. Scores for multiple MEPV
are summed; 0 denotes no episodes. We also use CIVVIOL, CIVWAR, ETHVIOL,
and ETHWAR independently in the regressions, looking out for high correlations
and significance in the model.
29.6 Results
In this section, we first briefly discuss the characteristics of the data and then the
results.
Table 29.1 presents the summary statistics.
Table 29.1: Summary Statistics
The results show that, on average, African countries experienced a rising number
of growth reversals over the sample period. The measure of the level of democracy
shows that, on average, African countries became less democratic.
Table 29.2: Correlations
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