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Pacification and Gender in Colonial Africa: Evidence from the Ethnographic Atlas
Henderson, Morgan; Whatley, Warren - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
social characteristics of ethnic groups in Africa. We find that the duration of colonial rule caused a dramatic shift in … gender roles in Africa by increasing the relative status of men in lineage and inheritance systems but also reducing polygyny …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011118536
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Political Structure as a Legacy of Indirect Colonial Rule: Bargaining between National Governments and Rural Elites in Africa
Mizuno, Nobuhiro - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Alliances between national governments and rural elites are observed in post-colonial Africa. In such alliances, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109520
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Colonialism and Industrialization: Empirical Results
Alam, M. Shahid - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1998
particular, the basic results are not affected by the inclusion of a dummy for Sub-Saharan Africa. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111073
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The Transformation of Rural Labour Systems in Colonial and Post-Colonial Northern Nigeria
Kohnert, Dirk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1986
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 develop¬ment of rural labour systems in Northern Nigeria is meant to provide both a better...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789919
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Assessing the Impact of Ease of Doing Business and Corruption on Economic Growth for Africa Free Trade Zone (AFTZ) Member States
Bonga, Wellington Garikai - 2018
A positive economic growth is one crucial macroeconomic objective of every nation. Many countries have formed regional as well as international trading blocs in an attempt to enhance economic growth and maximise welfare of each member state, the AFTZ member states are not an exception. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012910879
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The imposed gift of Versailles: the fiscal effects of restricting the size of Germany’s armed forces, 1924–1929
Hantke, Max; Spoerer, Mark - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Weimar’s politicians used to attribute the continuous budget crises after the currency stabilization of 1923–4 to the burden put on the German economy by the Treaty of Versailles, in particular the reparation payments. This argument, which is still popular, neglects the fact that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543536
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Does colonialism have an impact on the current language situation in Sub-Saharan Africa?
Buzasi, Katalin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
language situation in Sub-Saharan Africa. To establish the relationship between colonization and linguistic circumstances we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260564
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Socialism without liberation: Land Reclamation Projects in Guinea-Bissau
Kohnert, Dirk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1988
One of the outstanding aims of most liberation movements has been to increase the economic well-being of their people, Guinea-Bissau being no exception in this respect. How far has the new Nation State succeeded in fulfilling this aim? A comparative analysis of the implementation of land...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005087526
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Romer’s Charter Cities v. Colonization, Imperialism, and Colonialism: A General Characterization
Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
brutal images of failed (neo)colonialism. This essay characterizes colonization, imperialism, and colonialism in order to …, and colonialism. The characterization finds that while colonization, imperialism, and colonialism share strong historical …-city model is voluntary participation of all players. Colonization, imperialism, and colonialism were forceful and repressive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008919771
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Why Geographic Factors are Necessary in Development Studies
Ballinger, Clint - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper proposes that the resurgence of geographic factors in the study of uneven development is not due simply to the recurrent nature of intellectual fashions, nor necessarily because arguments that rely on geographic factors are less simplistic than before, nor because they avoid...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008876877