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Public Infrastructure Provision and Ethnic Favouritism: Evidence from South Africa

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  • Carolyn Chisadza
  • Leoné Walters
  • Manoel Bittencourt

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Does coethnicity with the President affect public infrastructure provision in South Africa? Using municipal‐level data for 52 district municipalities from 1996 to 2016, we find that municipalities coethnic with the President are associated with higher water infrastructure provision relative to non‐coethnic municipalities. Taking into account various political considerations, results show that ethnic favouritism occurs due to ethnic altruism. Our findings remain robust to different specifications of coethnicity thresholds and are applicable to electricity infrastructure provision. Results suggest that in order to minimise ethnic favouritism, politically independent institutions should oversee the allocation of funding and provision of infrastructure.
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  • Carolyn Chisadza & Leoné Walters & Manoel Bittencourt, 2019. "Public Infrastructure Provision and Ethnic Favouritism: Evidence from South Africa," ERSA Working Paper Series 787, Economic Research Southern Africa.
    • Handle: RePEc:rza:ersawp:787
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    2. Bandyopadhyay, Sanghamitra & Green, Elliott, 2025. "Explaining ethno-regional favouritism in Sub-Saharan Africa," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 188(C).
    3. Elena Perra, 2022. "Road to Division: Ethnic Favouritism in the Provision of Road Infrastructure in Ethiopia," Working Papers - Economics wp2022_01.rdf, Universita' degli Studi di Firenze, Dipartimento di Scienze per l'Economia e l'Impresa.
    4. Lucas Argentieri Mariani & Mattia Longhi & Silvia Marchesi, 2025. "Reversing the Political Resource Curse: Accountability and Regional Favoritism under Capital Windfalls," Working Papers 552, University of Milano-Bicocca, Department of Economics.

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    • H54 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Infrastructures
    • J15 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
    • O55 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Africa

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