profitability of firms remains unclear. We reconstruct the annual financial records of Sena Sugar Estates in Portuguese East Africa … to the performance of the firm. We show that Sena Sugar Estates achieved stable and solid returns to capital, comparable …

Introduction / Stuart B. Schwartz -- Sugar in Iberia / William D. Phillips Jr. -- Sugar islands : the sugar economy of … Madeira and the Canaries, 1450-1650 / Alberto Vieira -- The sugar economy of Española in the sixteenth century / Genaro … Rodríguez Morel -- Sugar and slavery in early colonial Cuba / Alejandro De La Fuente -- A commonwealth within itself : the early …

Sugar production is often associated with higher levels of economic inequality, particularly when taking place under … detailed district-level data to suggest that, due to the specifics of the local institutional context, sugar production in the … computed index of sugar suitability as instrument, is used to suggest the effect is causal. This paper shows the importance of …