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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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large-scale violence in Africa as civil war; these episodes better fit their concept of regional war complexes. The paper … authors advocate the comparative study of regional war complexes in Africa based on historical narratives …
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Drawing on evidence from Africa - especially Ethiopia and Uganda - the authors of this volume draw conclusions about …
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growth and economic development in post-colonial Africa. The paper investigates the paradox of increased female enrollment in …
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-Saharan Africa. The model emphasizes segmentation of production under complete specialization. It shows that the colonial production …
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'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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China's World Trade Organization accession): it is not enough to assume, given Africa's high spatial inequality, that local …
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than 20 countries accounting for two-thirds of the population in Sub-Saharan Africa. In this process, the analysis employs …
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Intimate partner violence is the most common form of violence against women in conflict and non-conflict settings, but in conflict settings it often receives less attention than other forms of gender-based violence, such as conflict-related sexual violence. Using data from the 2008 and 2013...
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The Taiping Rebellion (1851-1864) in China was the deadliest civil war in history. This paper provides evidence that this cataclysmic event significantly shaped the Malthusian transition and long-term development that followed, especially in areas where the experiences that stemmed from the...
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