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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135470
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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 - 2017
This paper draws on history, anthropology, and economics to examine the dynamics and extent of women's contribution to growth and economic development in post-colonial Africa. The paper investigates the paradox of increased female enrollment in education and the persistence of gender...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974151
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A Model of Gendered Production in Colonial Africa and Implications for Development in the Post-Colonial Period
Fofack, Hippolyte - 2017
This paper proposes a model to analyze the implications of colonial policies for gender inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa. The model emphasizes segmentation of production under complete specialization. It shows that the colonial production model, underpinned by occupational job segregation in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974424
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The Persistence of (Subnational) Fortune : Geography, Agglomeration, and Institutions in the New World
Maloney, William F. - 2017
Using subnational historical data, this paper establishes the within country persistence of economic activity in the New World over the last half millennium. The paper constructs a data set incorporating measures of pre-colonial population density, new measures of present regional per capita...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975008
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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 - 2017
crops and European missionary constructions of the individual, marriage, and family from the early decades of the 19th …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975271
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Equilibrium Fictions : A Cognitive Approach to Societal Rigidity
Hoff, Karla - 2017
the colonies that became the United States after, not before, slavery; that out of the "scandal of empire" in India …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976669
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The Long-Run and Gender-Equalizing Impacts of School Access : Evidence from the First Indochina War
Dang, Hai-Anh - 2020
Very few studies currently exist on the long-term impacts of schooling policies in developing countries. This paper examines the impacts -- half a century later -- of a mass education program conducted by the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in the occupied areas during the First Indochina War....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012851523
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India's Internal Labor Migration Paradox : The Statistical and the Real
Nayyar, Gaurav - 2018
Internal labor migration rates in India have been largely static and low in recent times compared with those in other … the India Human Development Survey, which provides a more recent source of data compared with the Census and other …-12, empirical analysis based on the India Human Development Survey highlights several socioeconomic factors associated with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012926474
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Identifying Catch-Up Trajectories in Child Growth : New Methods with Evidence from Young Lives
Jones, Sam - 2018
of catch-up growth across the four Young Lives countries (Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam). In addition, the paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012926786
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Wider Economic Benefits of Investments in Transport Corridors and the Role of Complementary Policies
Melecky, Martin - 2018
This paper estimates the impact of the Golden Quadrilateral and North-South-East-West Highways in India on welfare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012926890