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Future challenges in measuring Africa’s past: Lessons from estimating GDP for the Gold Coast, 1891-1954

Jerven, Morten - African Economic History Network - 2012

There has been a recent surge in research on long term African development. For this research agenda to be fruitful and its theories, it is crucial to have consistent estimates of economic change. This paper contributes with a new GDP time series for Ghana, 1891-1954. The series implies a...

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Colonialism and development in Africa

Heldring, Leander; Robinson, James A. - African Economic History Network - 2013

In this paper we evaluate the impact of colonialism on development in Sub-Saharan Africa. In the world context …, colonialism had very heterogeneous effects, operating through many mechanisms, sometimes encouraging development sometimes … the colonial period, but also to take a view on what might have happened without colonialism and also to take into account …

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Slavery, Statehood and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Bezemer, Dirk; Bolt, Jutta; Lenzink, Robert - African Economic History Network - 2012

This paper addresses the long-term impact of Sub-Saharan Africa’s indigenous systems of slavery on its political and economic development, based on an analytical survey of the literature and data collected from anthropological records. We develop a theory to account for this based on the...

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