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Industrialization, exports and the developmental state in Africa : the case for transformation

Gĩthĩnji, Mwangi wa; Adesida, Olugbenga - 2011

avenues and resources for transformation. -- Africa ; economic development ; economic history ; exports ; industrialization …

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The Origins of Colonial Investments in Former British and French Africa

Ricart-Huguet, Joan - 2020

Colonial investments impacted long-run political and economic development, but we have little systematic evidence about their origins and spatial distribution. Combining novel data sources, I show that colonial investments were very unequally distributed within 16 British and French African...

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Growth, colonization, and institutional development : in and out of Africa

Bertocchi, Graziella - 2011

This essay investigates the determinants of the growth performance of Africa. I start by illustrating a broader … institutional development. After reporting results from standard growth regressions, I analyze the role of Africa's peculiar history … influence, in and out of Africa, of the slave trades. The essay ends with critical conclusions and suggestions for further …

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Growth, Colonization, and Institutional Development : In and Out of Africa

Bertocchi, Graziella - 2011

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Colonial Origins of the Informal Economy on the Gazelle Peninsula

Conroy, John D. - 2014

This paper is concerned with the accommodation to the market economy of Tolai people, indigenous to the Gazelle Peninsula in Papua New Guinea and regarded as one of the most prosperous and enterprising groups in the country. 'The market' was introduced to Tolai by German (and later, Australian)...

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The transformation of rural labour systems in colonial and post-colonial Northern Nigeria

Kohnert, Dirk - 1986

The study attempts to highlight the interrelation between three central points in the ongoing debate on the political economy of development: viability, surplus, and class-formation. A case study of the development of rural labour systems in Northern Nigeria is meant to provide both a better...

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