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Brain drain in the age of mass migration: Does relative inequality explain migrant selectivity?
Stolz, Yvonne; Baten, Jörg - 2012
Brain drain is a core economic policy problem for many developing countries today. Does relative inequality in source and destination countries influence the brain-drain phenomenon? We explore human capital selectivity during the period 1820-1909.We apply age heaping techniques to measure human...
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Socialism without liberation: Land Reclamation Projects in Guinea-Bissau
Kohnert, Dirk - In: Sociologia Ruralis 28 (1988) 2/3, pp. 161-175
One of the outstanding aims of most liberation movements has been to increase the economic well-being of their people, Guinea-Bissau being no exception in this respect. How far has the new Nation State succeeded in fulfilling this aim? A comparative analysis of the implementation of land...
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The Colonial and Geographic Origins of Comparative Development
Auer, Raphael - 2009
While the direct impact of geographic endowments on prosperity is present in all countries, in former colonies, geography has also affected colonization policies and, therefore, institutional outcomes. Using non-colonized countries as a control group, I develop an empirical strategy that...
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Vergleichsverbot? Bevölkerungsstatistiken und die Frage der Vergleichbarkeit in den deutschen Kolonien (1885–1914)
Renard, Léa - In: KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und … 73 (2021) Suppl 1, pp. 169-194
Der Beitrag untersucht das Verhältnis von statistischen Klassifikationen und Vergleichen in deutschen Kolonialstatistiken zwischen 1885 und 1914 und geht der Frage nach, welche Bedeutung und welche Ausprägungen dem Vergleich in Bezug auf Raum und Bevölkerung in kolonialen Statistiken zukamen....
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Geography, institutions, and the making of comparative development
Auer, Raphael A. - 2012
While the direct impact of geographic endowments on prosperity is present in all countries, in former colonies, geography has also affected colonization policies and, therefore, institutional outcomes. Using non-colonized countries as a control group, I re-examine the theories put forward by La...
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The Transformation of Rural Labour Systems in Colonial and Post-Colonial Northern Nigeria
Kohnert, Dirk - In: Journal of Peasant Studies 13 (1986) 4, pp. 258-271
Northern Nigeria is meant to provide both a better qualitative and quantitative idea of this interrelation. After an analysis …La transformation des systèmes du travail ruraux dans l’époque coloniale et post-coloniale dans le nord du Nigeria: L … rural dans le nord du Nigeria est destiné à fournir à la fois une meilleure idée qualitative et quantitative de cette …
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The Curious Incident of the Franc in the Gambia: Floating Exchange Rates and the British Imperial Monetary System in the 1920s
Gardner, Leigh - 2014
In 1922, the British colonial administration in the Gambia demonetized the French five franc coin, which had been legal tender since 1843. The cost of the demonetization was equal to a year's revenue, and undermined the stable fiscal position built up over previous decades. The floating exchange...
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Colonial Origins of the Threefold Reality of Mozambique: fiscal capacity and labour systems
Alexopoulou, Kleoniki; Juif, Dacil - 2015
The question whether institutions in Africa were shaped by the metropolitan identity of the colonizer or by local conditions is lively debated in the African economic history literature. In this paper we contribute to this debate by revealing regional differences in tax capacity in the...
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A case of its own? A review of Italy's colonisation of Eritrea, 1890-1941
Jerven, Morten; Strangio, Donatella; Weisdorf, Jacon - 2021
This paper considers Italy's short but intense colonisation of Eritrea in light of the more well-known European colonial histories in Africa. We review the Italian historiography on Italy's involvement in Eritrea, supplementing it with novel archival data. The focus is on the activities of...
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The Lucas Paradox and the quality of institutions: then and now
Schularick, Moritz; Steger, Thomas M. - 2008
In the first era of financial globalization (1880-1914), global capital market integration led to substantial net capital movements from rich to poor economies. The historical experience stands in contrast to the contemporary globalization where gross capital mobility is equally high, but did...
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