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The study attempts to highlight the interrelation between three central points in the ongoing debate on the political economy of development: viability, surplus, and class-formation. A case study of the development of rural labour systems in Northern Nigeria is meant to provide both a better...
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We examine the long-term impact of forced labour on individual risk behaviour and economic decisions. For that, we focus on a policy of coercive cotton cultivation enforced in colonial Mozambique between 1926 and 1961. We combine archival sources about the boundaries of historical cotton...
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This paper examines the distribution of top incomes in 15 former British colonies in Africa, drawing on evidence …
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Although growth has improved substantially in most African countries in recent years, poverty across the continent has fallen very little in the aggregate. There have been strong poverty reduction performances in some countries, but others exhibit higher poverty rates now than in 1990 despite...
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This paper identifies three types of welfare regimes in Africa, based on the insight that tax and expenditure regimes …, demonstrating that welfare regimes in Africa have been strongly determined by the ways in which different countries were … expenditure has tended to obscure this important aspect of welfare regimes in Africa. …
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