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The Contribution of African Women to Economic Growth and Development in Post-Colonial Africa : Historical Perspectives and Policy Implications

Akyeampong, Emmanuel Kwaku - 2017

growth and economic development in post-colonial Africa. The paper investigates the paradox of increased female enrollment in …

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The Contribution of African Women to Economic Growth and Development : Historical Perspectives and Policy Implications -- Part I: The Pre-Colonial and Colonial Periods

Akyeampong, Emmanuel Kwaku - 2017

's economic marginalization in Sub-Saharan Africa from the pre-colonial period to the end of colonial rule. It is not that women … even in kinship structures in pre-colonial Africa, utilizing the concepts of "rights in persons" and "wealth in people …." Reviewing the processes of production and reproduction, it explains why most slaves in pre-colonial Africa were women and …

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Structural Transformation and Productivity Growth in Africa : Uganda in the 2000s

Ahmed, Sabin - 2017

Uganda?s economy underwent significant structural change in the 2000s whereby the share of non-tradable services in …

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A Model of Gendered Production in Colonial Africa and Implications for Development in the Post-Colonial Period

Fofack, Hippolyte - 2017

-Saharan Africa. The model emphasizes segmentation of production under complete specialization. It shows that the colonial production …

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Good, Bad, and Ugly Colonial Activities : Studying Development Across the Americas

Gallego, Francisco A. - 2010

Levels of economic development vary widely within countries in the Americas. This paper argues that part of this variation has its roots in the colonial era. Colonizers engaged in different economic activities in different regions of a country, depending on local conditions. Some activities were...

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Equilibrium Fictions : A Cognitive Approach to Societal Rigidity

Hoff, Karla Ruth - 2017

This paper assesses the role of ideas in economic change, combining economic and historical analysis with insights from psychology, sociology and anthropology. Belief systems shape the system of categories ( "pre-confirmatory bias" ) and perceptions (confirmatory bias), and are themselves...

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Mining and Economic Development : Did China's WTO Accession Affect African Local Economic Development?

Addison, Tony - 2017

China's World Trade Organization accession): it is not enough to assume, given Africa's high spatial inequality, that local …

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Bright Lights, Big Cities : Measuring National and Subnational Economic Growth in Africa from Outer Space, with an Application to Kenya and Rwanda

Bundervoet, Tom - 2017

This paper uses the night lights (satellite imagery from outer space) approach to estimate growth in and levels of subnational 2013 gross domestic product for 47 counties in Kenya and 30 districts in Rwanda. Estimating subnational gross domestic product is consequential for three reasons. First,...

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Housing and Urbanization in Africa : Unleashing a Formal Market Process

Collier, Paul - 2017

the consequent stake in economic stability. This paper examines why such a process has not happened in Africa. The … neither the political weight nor the analytic capacity to play this role effectively. Yet in Africa, housing has never …

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Agriculture, Aid and Economic Growth in Africa

McArthur, John - 2018

How can foreign aid to agriculture support economic growth in Africa? This paper constructs a geographically … is presented for Uganda as an illustrative case. Three stylized scenarios demonstrate the potential economy-wide impacts …

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