The impact of local culture and traditional social organization on the development of Africa and Asia: New maps, data banks and empirical findings.

Leading assumptions

1. Cultural values need structural interpretation.
2. History is a resource of social capital.
3. The cultural heritage of nations is grounded on local traditions.
4. Catch-up development depends on pre-colonial complexity.
5. Development trajectories reflect the the cultural heritage of both, the pre-colonial social structures and colonial experience.

Myanmar was part of the sample and was compared to other countries:

• ethno-linguistic groups, traditional farming, and socio-political complexity: http://www.worlddevelopment.uzh.ch/atlas/Data/ovvi/MyanmarD.pdf
• Colonial Transformation Dataset Link