Morten Jerven – African Economic History Network

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Morten Jerven is an economic historian, with a PhD from the London School of Economics, and has since 2009 been working at the School for International Studies at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada.

AEHN Working Papers

2021

AEHN Working Paper #67
The Nexus between Growth, Inequality, and Poverty: Lessons from Long-term Trends in Tanzania, 1961-2017
Sascha Klocke and Morten Jerven
AEHN Working Paper #66
A Case of its Own? A Review of Italy’s Colonisation of Eritrea, 1890-1941
Morten Jerven, Jacob Weisdorf and Donatella Strangio

2020

AEHN Working Paper #55
The Fiscal State in Africa: Evidence from a century of growth
Thilo Albers, Morten Jerven and Marvin Suesse

2019

AEHN Working Paper #50
African Economic Growth 1900-50: Historical National Accounts for British Colonial Africa
Morten Jerven

2016

AEHN Working Paper #28
Historical patterns of economic growth in Africa: a review
Morten Jerven
AEHN Working Paper #27
Capitalism in pre-colonial Africa: a review
Morten Jerven

2013

AEHN Working Paper #10
Writing History Backwards or Sideways: Towards a Consensus on African Population, 1850-present
Ewout Frankema and Morten Jerven

2012

AEHN Working Paper #3
Future challenges in measuring Africa’s past: Lessons from estimating GDP for the Gold Coast, 1891-1954
Morten Jerven
AEHN Working Paper #1
Moving Forward in African Economic History: Bridging the Gap Between Methods and Sources
Morten Jerven, Gareth Austin, Erik Green, Chibuike Uche, Ewout Frankema, Johan Fourie, Joseph Inikori, Alexander Moradi and Ellen Hillbom

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