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This paper provides a comparative assessment of the market share, reach to the poor, and performance of faith-based and public schools in Sierra Leone using data from the 2004 Integrated Household Survey. One-third of primary school students attend government schools and more than half are in...
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The objective of this paper is to provide a descriptive analysis of domestic work time in Sierra Leone using a 2003-2004 household survey that for the first time provides information on time use. Basic statistics on the time allocated to domestic work according to gender, age, urban/rural...
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trade and slavery have evolved into a “modern” business, especially under the forms of compulsory labour and sexual …
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This article assesses the US discussion on the material roots of racism in which writers such as Malcolm X have been heavily criticised by ‘marxists’ for substituting race for class in the analysis of society. The article argues that such criticism departs from the classical Marxist...
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The ``land abundance'' view of African history uses sparse population to explain economic institutions. I provide supporting evidence from the Egba of Nigeria. I use early colonial court records to show that Egba institutions fit the theory's predictions. Before 1914, the Egba had poorly defined...
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exogenous land quality and endogenously evolving population determine the existence of land rights, slavery, and polygyny. I use …, slavery, and polygyny occurred where land was most suitable for agriculture, and where population density was greatest. These … theories of slavery. …
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The difficulties to obtain regular and trustworthy data series, which describe the set of demographic characteristics we could consider standard (number of existing persons, births and deaths, distributed by age, sex and social condition, within a certain geographic area) are notorious. Lacking...
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institutions, slavery, farm inequality, and political inequality on long-term development in São Paulo. The principal findings are … end of the twentieth century; (2) measures of the intensity of slavery have little if any independent impact on income in … contemporary economic or political inequality. Overall, neither the intensity of slavery nor the pattern of inequality had any …
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Since trade was not an engine, neither was a part of trade, such as the trade in slaves. And certainly the profits from the trade did not finance the Industrial Revolution. Imperialism, too, was a mere part of trade, and despite the well-deserved guilt that Europeans feel in having perpetrated...
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The institution of slavery is found mostly at intermediate stages of agricultural development, and less often among …
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