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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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Limited Government and Economic Growth in Botswana
Beaulier, Scott A.; Subrick, J. Robert - In: Journal of Private Enterprise 23 (2007) Fall 2007, pp. 52-66
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010894178
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Colonial experience and postcolonial underdevelopment in Africa
Mizuno, Nobuhiro; Okazawa, Ryosuke - In: Public Choice 141 (2009) 3, pp. 405-419
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008578012
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Comparing colonial and post-colonial output: Challenges in estimating African economic change in the long run
Jerven, Morten - Centre for Global Economic History (CGEH), Universiteit … - 2011
Until recently, most economists work on Africa has taken 1960 as the starting point because data on national income and … similar derivates are only available back to this point. To date, the quantitative literature on Africa has made heroic leaps …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009150643
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A Colonial Legacy of African Gender Inequality? Evidence from Christian Kampala, 1895-2011
Meier zu Selhausen, Felix; Weisdorf, Jacob - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
The colonial legacy of African underdevelopment is widely debated but hard to document. We use occupational statistics from Protestant marriage registers of historical Kampala to investigate the hypothesis that African gender inequality and female disempowerment are rooted in colonial times. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011145474
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The Political Economy of Slums: Theory and Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Fox, Sean - In: World Development 54 (2014) C, pp. 191-203
Over 800 million people in Africa, Asia, and Latin America live in slums. Why? I argue that slums are a result of …, and institutional factors. I trace the origins of disjointed modernization in sub-Saharan Africa back to the colonial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011052122
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Pacification and Gender in Colonial Africa: Evidence from the Ethnographic Atlas
Henderson, Morgan; Whatley, Warren - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
social characteristics of ethnic groups in Africa. We find that the duration of colonial rule caused a dramatic shift in … gender roles in Africa by increasing the relative status of men in lineage and inheritance systems but also reducing polygyny …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011118536
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Political Structure as a Legacy of Indirect Colonial Rule: Bargaining between National Governments and Rural Elites in Africa
Mizuno, Nobuhiro - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Alliances between national governments and rural elites are observed in post-colonial Africa. In such alliances, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109520
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Colonialism and Industrialization: Empirical Results
Alam, M. Shahid - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1998
particular, the basic results are not affected by the inclusion of a dummy for Sub-Saharan Africa. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111073
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A Colonial Legacy of African Gender Inequality? Evidence from Christian Kampala, 1895-2011
Meier zu Selhausen, Felix; Weisdorf, Jacob - Centre for Global Economic History (CGEH), Universiteit … - 2014
The colonial legacy of African underdevelopment is widely debated but hard to document. We use occupational statistics from Protestant marriage registers of historical Kampala to investigate the hypothesis that African gender inequality and female disempowerment are rooted in colonial times. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011163100