Nonso Obikili is Director of the Applied Economics program at the African Heritage Institution. His research primary focuses on African economic history and political economy. He earned his PhD in economics from...
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JEL Code: O1
Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth → Economic Development
Rémi Jedwab is an Assistant Professor of Economics and International Affairs at the Elliott School and the Department of Economics of George Washington University. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the...
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Boris Gershman is an Assistant Professor of Economics at American University in Washington, DC. He earned his PhD in Economics from Brown University in 2012 and held a visiting scholar appointment at the...
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This essay presents an economic history perspective on prospects for industrialization in Sub-Saharan Africa. The Gerschenkron-Amsden ‘late development’/‘late industrialization’ approach has valuable insights for Africa, but is best set within Sugihara’s longer-term,...
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Given difficult to access pre-colonial forms of surplus extraction, African colonial governments faced severe constraints to raise revenue for incipient colonial state formation. This paper compares the ways in which the British...
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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...
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