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Show 67 No single regions, ethnic group constitutes even of the Harari the 7 regional the a numerically dominant significant portion ethnic group is a of the political minority, state where the Oromo ethnic group is regional state is the political population. as In some in the case numerically dominant, seat of the Harari ethnic group, which accounts for but only percent of the regional population. In the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples (SNNP) regional state, sometimes referred to regions as there are more than forty-five ethnic groups, and this "museum of nationalities." Initial attempts to as possible proved impractical, 7 -11) coalesced and formed the SNNP and as a original state. This regional reflects the centuries old movement of result the people from one area to another population in the southern significant number of ethnic groups from the North area. A many (numbered pattern of ethnic distribution concentration of economically carve as five states is region viable part of the country, are as well the mainly the represented in the southern part of the country. Table 4 shows Ethnic of the level of ethnic a measure diversity is commonly measured through what et al. fragmentation' (Alesina Easterly and Levin 1997). The index is defined N ELF=I- 2003; Alesina L 1=1 (E )2 _I N et al. as: diversity within the regional states. is called 'index of ethno-linguistic 1999; Annett 2002; Baqir 2002; |
