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The Gun-Slave Cycle in the 18th century British slave trade in Africa
Whatley, Warren - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The trans-Atlantic slave trade is considered by many to have been a major shock to Africa, one that transformed African economies and contributed to long-term poverty. In this paper I combine data from the Transatlantic Slave Trade Database and the Anglo-African Trade Statistics to document some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260695
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The Long-Term Effects of Africa's Slave Trades
Nunn, Nathan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Can part of Africa’s current underdevelopment be explained by its slave trades? To explore this question, I use data from shipping records and historical documents reporting slave ethnicities to construct estimates of the number of slaves exported from each country during Africa’s slave...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005620183
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Climate, ecosystem resilience and the slave trade
Fenske, James; Kala, Namrata - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
African societies exported more slaves in colder years. Lower temperatures reduced mortality and raised agricultural yields, lowering slave supply costs. Our results help explain African participation in the slave trade, which predicts adverse outcomes today. We use an annual panel of African...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108075
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Climate, ecosystem resilience and the slave trade
Fenske, James; Kala, Namrata - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
African societies exported more slaves in colder years. Lower temperatures reduced mortality and raised agricultural yields, lowering the cost of supplying slaves. Our results help explain African participation in the slave trade, which is associated with adverse outcomes today. We merge annual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110014
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The transatlantic slave trade and the evolution of political authority in West Africa
Whatley, Warren - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
they wanted to. From this perspective, state-failure in West Africa may be rooted in a political and economic history that … is unique to Africa in many respects, a history that dates at least as far back as the era of the transatlantic slave …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113523
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Macroeconomic Effects of a Low-Carbon Electricity Transition in Kenya and Ghana : An Exploratory Dynamic General Equilibrium Analysis
Willenbockel, Dirk - 2019
The present study applies purpose-built dynamic computable general equilibrium models for Ghana and Kenya with a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012894601
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The poverty and inequality nexus in Ghana: a decomposition analysis of household expenditure components
Novignon, Jacob; Nonvignon, Justice; Mussa, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
in Ghana. Using micro data from the sixth round of the Ghana Living Standards Survey conducted in 2012/2013, marginal …, reducing within-component inequality significantly reduces overall poverty and inequality in Ghana, compared to between … tax policies (such as Value Added Tax and National Health Insurance Levy in the case of Ghana) that provide exemptions for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252595
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Response of rice yields in Ghana: some prescriptions for future rice policy
Boansi, David - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
analyzed the response of rice yields in Ghana to major internal and external factors which have direct and indirect effects on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259309
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Spatial Price Transmission in the Regional Maize Markets in Ghana
Ankamah-Yeboah, Isaac - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Policy makers have been striving through market reforms to ensure proper functioning of agricultural markets and marketing channels to ensure food security, realize welfare impacts from policies, bridge the gap between the affluent and deprived regions. The core of which is due to regional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259494
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Joint Adoption of Safer Irrigation Technologies under Uncertainty: Evidence from Ghana
Owusu, Victor; Abdulai, Awudu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
technologies. The study employed a cross-sectional data on urban and periurban vegetable farmers in Kumasi of Ghana and examines …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259908