IIn this paper, we analyze the connection between the history of colonial rule and postcolonial development in Africa …

In this paper we evaluate the impact of colonialism on development in Sub-Saharan Africa. In the world context …, colonialism had very heterogeneous effects, operating through many mechanisms, sometimes encouraging development sometimes … the colonial period, but also to take a view on what might have happened without colonialism and also to take into account …

This paper addresses the long-term impact of Sub-Saharan Africa’s indigenous systems of slavery on its political and …

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 …