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We examine the long-term impact of forced labour on individual risk behaviour and economic decisions. For that, we focus on a policy of coercive cotton cultivation enforced in colonial Mozambique between 1926 and 1961. We combine archival sources about the boundaries of historical cotton...
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After the abolition of slavery in the Indian Ocean and Africa, the world of labor remained unequal, exploitative, and … the evolution of labor relationships on the Indian subcontinent, the Indian Ocean and Africa, with case studies on Assam …
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Are there contemporary development effects of African resistance to European domination? This question is the primary issue addressed by this inquiry. We establish that African resistance has had adverse effects on post-colonial African development and discuss possible channels of such...
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research. -- growth ; Africa ; history ; colonization ; institutions ; state fragility ; slavery …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 …
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