Slavery is social and economic issue deeply rooted in history from ancient times till these days. Its core is not … other people. Most of us know the nature of slavery in the ancient Greece, imperial Rome or in the period of colonialism …. Economic, psychological and social face of slavery (and enslavement) has been very well described in the literature. Much less …

Niger is a landlocked country in West Africa located between 11°37´ and 23°23´ north latitude and between 00°10 …´ and 16°00´ east longitude, with an area of 1,267,000 square kilometers. Niger shares borders with Algeria and Libya in … the north, Chad in the east, Nigeria and Benin in the south, and Burkina Faso and Mali in the west. Three-fourths of Niger …

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. …

institutions, slavery, farm inequality, and political inequality on long-term development in São Paulo. The principal findings are … end of the twentieth century; (2) measures of the intensity of slavery have little if any independent impact on income in … contemporary economic or political inequality. Overall, neither the intensity of slavery nor the pattern of inequality had any …