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“Trust in God – But Tie Your Camel First.” The Economic Organization Of The Trans-Saharan Slave Trade Between The Fourteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Prange, Sebastian - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005

This paper examines the economic organization of the trans-Saharan slave trade between the fourteenth and the nineteenth centuries on those routes that moved slaves from Sudanic Africa via entrepôts in the Sahel and Sahara to the Maghrib. The commercial framework of this trade was integrated...

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Freedom to be a Child:Commercial Pressures on Children

Piachaud, David - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

Children’s lives have been transformed over the past century. Family incomes haveincreased, children lead more solitary lives, attitudes to childhood have changed, newproducts have been developed and commercial pressures on children have increased.The importance of these commercial pressures...

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US Poverty Studies and Poverty Measurement:The past twenty-five years

Glennerster, Howard - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2002

years. It has three parts. The firstconcentrates on the measurement of poverty and the fact that the US povertyline remained …

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Measuring Income Risk

Burgess, Simon M.; Gardiner, Karen; Jenkins, Stephen P.; … - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2000

We provide a critique of the methods that have been used to derive measures ofincome risk and draw attention to the importance of demographic factors as asource of income risk. We also propose new measures of the contribution tototal income risk of demographic and labour market factors....

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Regional Income Dispersion and Market Potential in the Late Nineteenth Century Hapsburg Empire

Schulze, Max-Stephan - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

Western Europe than suggested in the historiography. The measurement of regional market potential proves strongly sensitive to …

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Is Social Capital Persistent? Comparative Measurement in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Rota, Marta Felis - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

Recently, there has been a growing interest in social capital and in the difficulties related to its measurement. In …

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Was Dick Whittington Taller Than Those He Left Behind? Anthropometric Measures, Migration and the Quality of Life in Early Nineteenth Century London

Humphries, Jane; Leunig, Tim - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

Using a new source of evidence we explore the geographical mobility of mid-nineteenth century seamen. Among seamen born outside London, the tall, the literate and those who could remember the exact day, month and year when they were born - characteristics that we suggest mark them out as men...

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“On a Mission” with Mutable Mobiles

Morgan, Mary S. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2008

: its recipesfor development, its possibilities of measurement, and fromdifferences in political economy. These dimensions …

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Accurate Measurement and Design Standards: Consistency of Design and the Travel of ‘Facts’ Between Heterogeneous Groups

Velkar, Aashish - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

Design standards are carriers and creators of facts, enabling facts about product value to travel between groups, and assisting in the creation of product value by establishing a reference or comparison against which product attributes are compared. However, when design standards are not...

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Developing a capability list: Final Recommendationsof the Equalities Review Steering Group onMeasurement

Vizard, Polly; Burchardt, Tania - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

Equalities Review SteeringGroup on Measurement (CASEpaper 120) were prepared as backgroundpapers to assist in the development of … the measurement framework for theEqualities Review. The companion paper discusses the key challengesinvolved in … translating capability theory into a practical measurement tool inthe context of measuring inequality in Britain in the 21st …

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