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Slavery, Statehood and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Bezemer, Dirk; Bolt, Jutta; Lenzink, Robert - African Economic History Network - 2012
This paper addresses the long-term impact of Sub-Saharan Africa’s indigenous systems of slavery on its political and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010896617
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Future challenges in measuring Africa’s past: Lessons from estimating GDP for the Gold Coast, 1891-1954
Jerven, Morten - African Economic History Network - 2012
1960s. This suggests a revision of some prevalent truths about the history of economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010667499
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VENT FOR SURPLUS OR PRODUCTIVITY BREAKTHROUGH? THE GHANAIAN COCOA TAKE-OFF, c.1890-1936
Austin, Gareth - African Economic History Network - 2013
the ‘cash crop revolution’ in tropical Africa during the early colonial period. It focuses on the supply side, using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010667500
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Moving Forward in African Economic History: Bridging the Gap Between Methods and Sources
Jerven, Morten; Austin, Gareth; Green, Erik; Uche, Chibuike - African Economic History Network - 2012
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010636808
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Land Concentration, Institutional Control and African Agency: Growth and stagnation of European tobacco farming in Shire Highlands, c 1900 – 1940
Green, Erik - Ekonomisk-historiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2012
The role of factor endowments and institutions as drivers of socio-economic change and development is a central theme in economic and agrarian history. The common approach is to identify either factor endowments or institutions as triggers of change. Meanwhile, institutions and factor endowments...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010593460
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Moving Forward in African Economic History. Bridging the Gap Between Methods and Sources
Jerven, Morten; Austin, Gareth; Green, Erik; Uche, Chibuike - Ekonomisk-historiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2012
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818766
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Transparency in Resource Governance: The Pitfalls and Potential of “New Oil” in Sub-Saharan Africa
Alstine, James Van - In: Global Environmental Politics 14 (2014) 1, pp. 20-39
An international agenda has evolved over the past decade to establish hard and soft rules to govern the impacts of the extractive industries. The international community and some resource-rich states have increasingly embraced norms such as transparency in resource governance. This paper...
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The Long-Run Effects of the Scramble for Africa.
Michalopoulos, Stelios; Papaioannou, Elias - Department of Economics, Tufts University - 2011
We examine the long run consequences of the scramble for Africa among European powers in the late 19th century and … prolonged and more devastating civil wars. Third, we identify sizeable spill overs; civil conflict spreads from the homeland of … impact of the scramble for Africa on warfare. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010535569
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The Long-Run Effects of the Scramble for Africa
Michalopoulos, Stelios; Papaioannou, Elias - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
We examine the long-run consequences of the scramble for Africa among European powers in the late 19th century and … more prolonged and more devastating civil wars. Third, we identify sizeable spillovers; civil conflict spreads from the … sizable causal impact of the scramble for Africa on warfare. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371464
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Does franchise extension reduce short-run economic growth? Evidence from New South Wales, 1862-1882
Harris, Edwyna - Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, … - 2011
Empirical studies have established that franchise extension has positive effects on long-run growth because democratisation leads to greater equality of access to resources. However, in the short-run franchise may lead to a redistribution of resources away from important sectors of an economy....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009321157