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Mineral Beneficence in Developing Regions: Insights from the Cape’s Public Finance Policies, 1820-1910
Abel Gwaindepi, Krige Siebrits and Johan Fourie - December 21, 2020 in Frontiers in African Economic History

The optimal way of using the proceeds from mineral discoveries continues to elude many developing countries. Because such discoveries can fuel rapid economic growth, one of the key challenges that emerge is...
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Prison Labour: The Price of Prisons and the Lasting Effects of Incarceration

Belinda Archibong and Nonso Obikili

Posted in Working Papers

Institutions of justice, like prisons, can be used to serve economic and other extra- judicial interests, with lasting deleterious effects. We study the effects on incarceration when prisoners are used primarily as...
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Financing the African Colonial State: The Revenue Imperative and Forced Labour

Marlous van Waijenburg

Posted in Working Papers

Recent studies on colonial public finance have pointed to the severe constraints to fiscal capacity building Sub-Saharan Africa, and to the inclination of colonial governments to avoid direct taxes when revenue from...
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