pauloaguia: Wrong!!
In Backgammon, there is an equal chance for white to go first as there is for black to go first.
In Ludo, white goes first every time, thus giving white a small advantage.

As an example, let's take a very simple case: the first player to get 4 or more points, taking alternate rolls of a single die. In this, we are guaranteed that there will be no more than 7 rolls (If both players continually roll 1's).
From this, it ends up that there are 176 roll outcomes. Of these outcomes, white wins 105 of them (just under 60%). Obviously, Ludo is much more complicated, but to say that it has the same dice-dependent odds as Backgammon is not correct.