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JEL Code: O1

Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth  →  Economic Development

Prison Labour: The Price of Prisons and the Lasting Effects of Incarceration

Belinda Archibong and Nonso Obikili

Posted in Working Papers

Institutions of justice, like prisons, can be used to serve economic and other extra- judicial interests, with lasting deleterious effects. We study the effects on incarceration when prisoners are used primarily as...
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The trans-Atlantic slave trade and local political fragmentation in Africa
Nonso Obikili - 12 September 2016 in Frontiers in African Economic History

Political institutions and the balance of political power strongly influence the evolution of economic institutions, making them important for economic growth. The nature of political institutions and the distribution of political power...
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How Colonial Railroads defined Africa’s Economic Geography
Rémi Jedwab, Edward Kerby and Alexander Moradi - 9 May 2016 in Frontiers in African Economic History

Do infrastructure investments have the potential to transform Africa’s economic geography? Today, Africa suffers a massive infrastructure deficit (Calderón and Servén 2010). The World Bank estimates that sub-Saharan Africa has fewer than...
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Witchcraft Beliefs and the Erosion of Social Capital
Boris Gershman - 21 April 2016 in Frontiers in African Economic History

Belief in witchcraft, broadly defined as the ability to use supernatural techniques to harm others or acquire wealth, is a deep-rooted cultural phenomenon which still represents a salient feature of daily life...
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Is Africa too late for ‘late development’? Gerschenkron south of the Sahara

Gareth Austin

Posted in Working Papers

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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Endogenous Colonial Institutions: Lessons from Fiscal Capacity Building in British and French Africa, 1880-1940

Ewout Frankema and Marlous van Waijenburg

Posted in Working Papers

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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Heights and Development in a Cash-Crop Colony: Living Standards in Ghana, 1870-1980

Alexander Moradi, Gareth Austin and Jörg Baten

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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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