Bowden, Sue; Chiripanhura, Blessing; Mosley, Paul - In: Journal of International Development 20 (2008) 8, pp. 1049-1079
In this paper, we create the beginnings of a database on indicators of poverty and deprivation in six African countries over the last 100 years, with the intention of explaining the long-term trend of policy. We argue that an important key to those trends is provided by the decision during the...