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Heights and Development in a Cash-Crop Colony: Living Standards in Ghana, 1870-1980
Moradi, Alexander; Austin, Gareth; Baten, Jörg - 2013
While Ghana is a classic case of economic growth in an agricultural-export colony, scholars have queried whether it was sustained, and how far its benefits were widely distributed, socially and regionally. Using height as a measure of human well-being we explore the evolution of living standards...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012624356
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Heights and Development in a Cash-Crop Colony: Living Standards in Ghana, 1870-1980
Moradi, Alexander; Austin, Gareth; Baten, Jorg - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2013
While Ghana is a classic case of economic growth in an agriculturalâ€export colony, scholars have queried whether it was sustained, and how far its benefits were widely distributed, socially and regionally. Using height as a measure of human wellâ€being we explore the evolution of living...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010603708
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Heights and Development in a Cash-Crop Colony: Living Standards in Ghana, 1870-1980
Moradi, Alexander; Austin, Gareth; Baten, Jörg - African Economic History Network - 2013
While Ghana is a classic case of economic growth in an agricultural-export colony, scholars have queried whether it was sustained, and how far its benefits were widely distributed, socially and regionally. Using height as a measure of human well-being we explore the evolution of living standards...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010896615
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Spatial correlates of U.S. heights and BMIs, 2002
Komlos, John; Lauderdale, Benjamin E. - 2004
Aiming to further explore possible underlying causes for the recent stagnation in American heights, this paper describes the result of analysis of the commercial U.S. Sizing Survey. Using zip codes available in the data set, we consider geographic correlates of height such as local poverty rate,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010440460
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Nineteenth century body mass, height, and weight : inequality across quantiles
Carson, Scott Alan - 2021
with current and cumulative net nutrition. Taller statures allow weight to be distributed over larger areas, and height is … majority of net nutrition is beyond an individual's control, and stature inequality is smaller than weight because it is … genetically determined. Current net nutrition was positively related to age, however, inversely related to regional inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012542159
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Human Development in Africa: A Long-Run Perspective
Prados de la Escosura, Leandro - 2011
Long-run trends in Africa's well-being are provided on the basis of a new index of human development, alternative to the UNDP's HDI. A sustained improvement in African human development is found that falls, nonetheless, short of those experienced in other developing regions. Within Africa,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012669358
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Human development in Africa : a long-run perspective
Escosura, Leandro Prados de la - Instituto Figuerola de Historia y Ciencias Sociales, … - 2011
Long-run trends in Africa’s well-being are provided on the basis of a new index of human development, alternative to the UNDP’s HDI. A sustained improvement in African human development is found that falls, nonetheless, short of those experienced in other developing regions. Within Africa,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009317916
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Human Development in Africa: A Long-run Perspective
Prados de la Escosura, Leandro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Long-run trends in Africa’s well-being are provided on the basis of a new index of human development, alternative to the UNDP’s HDI. A sustained improvement in African human development is found that falls, nonetheless, short of those experienced in other developing regions. Within Africa,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009322973
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Human Development in Africa: A Long-Run Perspective
de la Escosura, Leandro Prados - European Historical Economics Society - EHES - 2011
Long-run trends in Africa’s well-being are provided on the basis of a new index of human development, alternative to the UNDP’s HDI. A sustained improvement in African human development is found that falls, nonetheless, short of those experienced in other developing regions. Within Africa,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009415641
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The Influence of Orphanhood on Children’s Schooling and Labour : Evidence from Sub Saharan Africa
Guarcello, Lorenzo; Lyon, Scott; Rosati, Furio C.; … - 2011
This paper explores possible links between orphanhood and two important determinants of child vulnerability - child labour and schooling - using household survey data from 10 Sub Saharan Africa countries. It forms part of a broader, ongoing effort to improve policy responses to the orphan crisis...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014185217