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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
growth and economic development in post-colonial Africa. The paper investigates the paradox of increased female enrollment in …
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
-Saharan Africa. The model emphasizes segmentation of production under complete specialization. It shows that the colonial production …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974424
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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
'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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975271
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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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Equilibrium Fictions : A Cognitive Approach to Societal Rigidity
Hoff, Karla - 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...
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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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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Political Accountability and Regulatory Performance in Infrastructure Industries : An Empirical Analysis
Gasmi, Farid - 2016
The aim of this paper is to empirically explore the relationship between the quality of political institutions and the performance of regulation, an issue that has recently occupied much of the policy debate on the effectiveness of infrastructure industry reforms. Taking the view that political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747876
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Do Institutions Matter More for Services?
Mattoo, Aaditya - 2016
Recent empirical research has focused on the role of institutions in overall economic performance. This paper examines the impact of institutions on the relative performance of the service sector. Through cross-country level and growth regressions it establishes the following stylized fact:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747951
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Trade, Inequality, and the Political Economy of Institutions
Do, Quy-Toan - 2016
The authors analyze the relationship between international trade and the quality of economic institutions such as contract enforcement, rule of law, or property rights. The literature on institutions has argued, both empirically and theoretically, that larger firms care less about good...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012748090