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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430076
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283609
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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
European monetary history. Less attention has been paid to the impact of floating on colonial territories in the periphery …
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Colonial Origins of the Threefold Reality of Mozambique: fiscal capacity and labour systems
Alexopoulou, Kleoniki; Juif, Dacil - 2015
conditions is lively debated in the African economic history literature. In this paper we contribute to this debate by revealing …
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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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Preferential trade agreements: The case of EU-Mexico
Busse, Matthias; Huth, Matthias; Koopmann, Georg - 2000
The paper evaluates the political and economic incentives to conclude the EU-Mexico Free Trade Agreement (FTA). It … the EU is likely to gain much more than Mexico. … EU und Mexiko bewertet. Dafür werden die europäische und mexikanische Handelspolitik analysiert und der multilaterale …
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Tomatoes or Tomato Pickers? - Free Trade and Migration in the NAFTA Case
del Río, Amaranta Melchor; Thorwarth, Susanne - 2006
This paper examines the relationship between trade liberalisation and migration in the case of Mexico. The increasing … bilateral trade between Mexico and the United States after signing the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was supposed … for illegal migration. The results indicate that increasing trade flows cause larger illegal migration from Mexico to the …
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Sincronización entre los cicles económicos de México y Estados Unidos: Nuevos resultados con base en el análisis de los indices coincidentes regionales de México
Delajara, Marcelo - 2012
activity in Mexico is measured using regional coincident indexes recently developed at Banco de México, while US aggregate …
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