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From Coercion to Compensation: Institutional Responses to Labour Scarcity in the Central African Copperbelt

Dacil Juif and Ewout Frankema - 2 February 2017 in Frontiers in African Economic History

The Central African Copperbelt offers a fascinating case for a comparative study of colonial institutional development. After the discovery of copper deposits in the first decade of the twentieth century, European investors...
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Measuring rural welfare in colonial Africa: did Uganda’s smallholders thrive?

Michiel de Haas - 21 November 2016 in Frontiers in African Economic History

Recent studies have uncovered long-term trends in welfare development in sub-Saharan Africa. But what do we know about the living standards of the large majority of rural dwellers in colonial Africa? Do...
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