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institutions, or IFIs. In response, in the 1980s, the World Bank approved SOE reforms that could be summed up in the term … public. The findings of recent studies in Africa suggest that PPI should not be jettisoned, and that the more productive path …
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The field of African economic history is in resurgence. This paper reviews recent and on-going research contributions and notes strengths in their wide methodological, conceptual and topical variety. In these strengths there is also a challenge: different methodological approaches may also...
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This paper addresses the long-term impact of Sub-Saharan Africa's indigenous systems of slavery on its political and …
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The question whether institutions in Africa were shaped by the metropolitan identity of the colonizer or by local … into three different "macro-regions of colonial influence": Africa of the colonial trade or peasant economy, Africa of the … concession-owning companies and Africa of the labour reserves. Interestingly, we argue that Mozambique encompassed all three …
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fiscal capacity in four countries in francophone West Africa – Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Niger and Senegal - over both the …
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indigenous labour in the growth of European settler agriculture in Africa. In contrast to previous research, I argue that the … Africa, using Southern Rhodesia as a case in point. My findings show that the rise of wage labour did not mark the end of … relations in colonial Africa. Based on my estimates I revise the fundamental question of the role of access to and control of …
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Ralph Austen in African Economic History (1987) noted how few African countries explicitly choose capitalism on independence, and for those who did it was a default model or a residual pattern. '˜African socialism' was popular in the early decades of independence and pursued by several...
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in Africa have been characterized by strong growth in real tax collection. As a next step, we employ these data to test … democratic institutions and interstate warfare can increase fiscal capacity, while government turnover reduces it. However, these …
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institutions, or IFIs. In response, in the 1980s, the World Bank approved SOE reforms that could be summed up in the term … public. The findings of recent studies in Africa suggest that PPI should not be jettisoned, and that the more productive path …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005570288
about Brexit. The article analyses five issues at stake for the Post-Brexit relationships between Britain, the EU and Africa … with a focus on the Commonwealth Sub-Saharan Africa: market access, FDI, aid, security and partnership . The British … likely this would be possible only at the expense of the poor in Africa and elsewhere. Concerning security cooperation with …
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