Africa has had difficulty industrializing during the 20th and 21st centuries. However, the continent has a long history of manufacturing. By the beginning of the colonial period, numerous parts of sub-Saharan Africa...
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Keyword: West Africa
In 1924, John Maynard Keynes complained that ‘perhaps the limit of the absurdity to which the Trustee Acts can lead, was reached early in this year when £2,000,000 was borrowed by Southern...
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This study contributes to African state and fiscal history by presenting a detailed comparison of the evolution of fiscal capacity in four countries in francophone West Africa – Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Niger...
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