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This paper addresses the long-term impact of Sub-Saharan Africa’s indigenous systems of slavery on its political and … develop a theory to account for this based on the framework proposed by North et al. (2009), where indigenous slavery may have … indigenous slavery is robustly and negatively associated with the quality of governance and with current income levels. …
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There has been a recent surge in research on long term African development. For this research agenda to be fruitful and its theories, it is crucial to have consistent estimates of economic change. This paper contributes with a new GDP time series for Ghana, 1891-1954. The series implies a...
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The Nieboer–Domar hypothesis has proved to be a powerful tool to identify the economic conditions under which slavery … use of slavery was more likely to become a vital alternative to increase production. These conditions have been identified … modified. First, slavery emerged as an urban phenomenon. Second, the use of slaves increased parallel with other forms of …
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practices, I combine a two-sector specific-factos trade model with a model of violence. Armed tgroups operating in the resourc … Russia, and the prevalence of slavery in West Africa. The second result explains why coercion decreased in the Kivu privinces …
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We analyze the implications of communitarianism-the tendency of people to organize into separate culturally homogeneous groups-for individual and group inequality in human capital accumulation. We propose a non-cooperative social interactions model where each individual decides how much time to...
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tradition of 'trade as a self-sufficient profession', it considers how they adapted their livelihoods to the colonial economy … with prescribed bureaucratic norms. It displayed the hybridity found wherever Smithian trade (seen as activated by a … of that behaviour played out over the colonial period to 1975. At the end of that time, trade as 'a self …
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Through a case-study of cocoa-farming in Ghana, this paper takes up the longrunning but recently neglected debate about the ‘cash crop revolution’ in tropical Africa during the early colonial period. It focuses on the supply side, using quantitative evidence as far as possible, to test the...
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The field of African economic history is in resurgence. This paper reviews recent and on-going research contributions and notes strengths in their wide methodological, conceptual and topical variety. In these strengths there is also a challenge: different methodological approaches may also...
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The historical role of European farming in southern and central Africa is a delicate matter that has received a great deal of attention among scholars over the years. Going through this vast literature a striking consensus emerges: success or failure of European farming in southern Africa was to...
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