Similar Search Results

Transportation technology and economic change : the impact of colonial railroads on city growth in Africa

Jedwab, Remi; Moradi, Alexander - 2013

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010233823

The colonial legacy : income inequality in former British African colonies

Atkinson, Anthony B. - 2014

This paper examines the distribution of top incomes in 15 former British colonies in Africa, drawing on evidence …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010244626

Slavery, statehood, and economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Bezemer, Dirk Johan; Bolt, Jutta; Lensink, Robert - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 57 (2014), pp. 148-163

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010381980

The contribution of African women to economic growth and development in post-colonial Africa : historical perspectives and policy implications

Akyeampong, Emmanuel Kwaku; Fofack, Hippolyte - 2013

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009784903

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011434317

From colonies to states

Cohn, Hans - In: Intereconomics : review of European economic policy 4 (1969) 4, pp. 130-131,134

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011549883

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. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011485114

Government accounting reform in an ex-French African colony : the political economy of neocolonialism

Lassou, Philippe Jacques Codjo; Hopper, Trevor - In: Critical perspectives on accounting : an international … 36 (2016), pp. 39-57

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011487969

The impact of the slave trade on literacy in West Africa : evidence from the colonial era

Obikili, Nonso - In: Journal of African economies 25 (2016) 1, pp. 1-27

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011518667

Divide and rule or the rule of the divided? : evidence from Africa

Michalopulos, Stelios; Papaioannou, Elias - 2011

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009234162