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The Long-Term Effects of the Printing Press in Sub-Saharan Africa

Cage, Julia; Rueda, Valeria - Sciences économiques, Sciences Po - 2014

This article delves into the relationship between newspaper readership and civic attitudes, and its effect on economic development. To this end, we investigate the long-term consequences of the introduction of the printing press in the 19th century. In sub-Saharan Africa, Protestant missionaries...

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The Long-Term Effects of the Printing Press in Sub-Saharan Africa

Cage, Julia; Rueda, Valeria - Department of Economics, Sciences économiques - 2014

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Telecommunications in South Africa : Enforcement of Competition

Sutherland, Ewan - 2022

Telecommunications in South Africa is one example of the regulatory state, dating from the early 1990s and comprising the usual elements of commercial operators, ministers issuing periodic policies, a regulator, a competition authority, systems of appeal, and parliamentary oversight. Less...

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The Productivity of Australia's Railways in the 20th Century

Wills-Johnson, Nick - 2007

database covering the economic aspects of Australia's railways from Federation to the present day. This paper draws upon an … early version of this database to calculate total factor productivity indices for Australia's railways, highlighting an … important aspect of railway history in Australia. Two indices, allowing comparison within railways across time, and across …

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Songlines

Kampanelis, Sotiris; Elizalde, Aldo; Ioannides, Yannis M. - 2023

use the case of Australia, where Aboriginal knowledge of the landscape was integral to colonial exploration and settlement …

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Early-modern globalization and the extent of indigenous agency : trade, commodities, and ecology

Carlos, Ann M.; Green, Erik; Links, Calumet; Redish, Angela - 2024

This paper examines the responses of Indigenous nations and European companies to new trading opportunities: Cree nations and the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC), and Khoe nations and the Dutch East India Company (VOC). This case study is important because of the disparate outcomes: within a few...

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A data-driven Bayesian model for evaluating the duration of detention of ships in PSC inspections

Yang, Zhisen; Yu, Qing; Yang, Zaili; Wan, Chengpeng - In: Transportation research : an international journal 181 (2024), pp. 1-26

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Stepping up : the need for proactive employer investment in safeguarding seafarers' mental health and wellbeing

Sampson, Helen; Ellis, Neil - In: Maritime policy & management 48 (2021) 8, pp. 1069-1081

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"Australian sailors wanted" : labour supply and Australian shipping, c. 1870-c. 1914

Ostapenko, Dmytro; Kirkby, Diane - In: Australian economic history review : an Asia-Pacific … 62 (2022) 2, pp. 141-160

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The determinants of international migration in early modern Europe : evidence from the maritime sector, c. 1700-1800

Klein, Alexander; Van Lottum, Jelle - 2017

This paper offers the first multivariate regression study of international migration in early modern Europe. Using unique eighteenth-century data about maritime workers, we created a data set of migration flows among European countries to examine the role of factors related to geography,...

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