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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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The Rise of Education in Africa

Posted in Textbook

This chapter discusses how Africans acquired new skills, in the past and in the present. We begin with a short review of the economic benefits of education and then proceed to a...
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