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Colonial legacies : shaping African cities

Baruah, Neeraj G.; Henderson, J. Vernon; Peng, Cong - 2017

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Colonial legacies : shaping African cities

Henderson, J. Vernon; Peng, Cong; Baruah, Neeraj - 2020

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The legacy of coercive cotton cultivation in colonial Mozambique

Barros, Henrique; Caeiro, Rute Martins; Jones, Sam; … - 2024

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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Colonial legacy and poverty reduction in sub- Saharan Africa

Khan, Rumman; Morrissey, Oliver; Mosley, Paul - 2016

Although growth has improved substantially in most African countries in recent years, poverty across the continent has fallen very little in the aggregate. There have been strong poverty reduction performances in some countries, but others exhibit higher poverty rates now than in 1990 despite...

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Colonial legacies and social welfare regimes in Africa : an empirical exercise

Mkandawire, Thandika - 2016

This paper identifies three types of welfare regimes in Africa, based on the insight that tax and expenditure regimes …, demonstrating that welfare regimes in Africa have been strongly determined by the ways in which different countries were … expenditure has tended to obscure this important aspect of welfare regimes in Africa. …

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