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In the ointment

机译:美中不足

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Economic historians have long supposed that Africa's historically low population density shaped its development. Rulers struggled to exercise control over scattered populations, the theory goes. Malfunctioning states inhibited growth because property rights were insecure and infrastructure was worse. But why was it that land in precolo-nial Africa was so abundant, and people were so scarce? A new paper~* by Marcella Alsan of Stanford University blames the tsetse fly. The pest, much like the mosquito, lives off the blood of people and animals and in the process transmits disease, in this case a parasite that causes sleeping sickness. To domesticated animals, on which it likes to feed, its bite is fatal. Its prevalence, the paper argues, made it considerably harder for Africans to develop agriculture.
机译:经济史学家长期以来一直认为,非洲历史上较低的人口密度决定了非洲的发展。理论认为,统治者努力对散落的人口实行控制。故障状态的国家抑制了增长,因为产权不安全且基础设施恶化。但是,为什么殖民前非洲的土地如此丰富而人们却如此稀缺?斯坦福大学的马塞拉·阿尔桑(Marcella Alsan)发表了一篇新论文,将其归咎于采采蝇。害虫就像蚊子一样,依靠人类和动物的血液生存,并在此过程中传播疾病,在这种情况下,该疾病是导致昏睡病的寄生虫。对于喜欢喂养的家养动物,它的咬人是致命的。该论文认为,这种疾病的流行使非洲人发展农业的难度大大增加。

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    《The economist》 |2015年第8921期|72-72|共1页
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