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JEL Code: I25

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Racial Disparities in Human Capital: Numeracy in South Africa, 1850-1980

Francisco José Marco-Gracia, Maria del Carmen Pérez-Artés and Amy Rommelspacher

Posted in Working Papers

South Africa represents a paradigmatic case in international literature on racial discrimination, illustrating a deeply institutionalised system that affected all aspects of daily life. Black, Coloured, and Asian populations were systematically relegated...
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How Colonial Railroads defined Africa’s Economic Geography
Rémi Jedwab, Edward Kerby and Alexander Moradi - May 9, 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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