Economic History of Developing Regions

2012 - 2025

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Volume 36, issue 3, 2021

Inequality of education in colonial Ghana: European influences and African responses pp. 367-391

Prince Young Aboagye

The Portuguese escudo area in Africa and its lessons for monetary unions pp. 392-421

Maria Eugénia Mata, Luis Nunes and Mário Roldão

Why we shouldn’t measure women’s labour force participation in pre-industrial countries pp. 422-427

Joyce Burnette

Gender equality, growth, and how a technological trap destroyed female work pp. 428-438

Jane Humphries and Benjamin Schneider

Gender and settler labour markets: The marriage bar in colonial Zimbabwe pp. 439-444

Ushehwedu Kufakurinani

Restating the case for women’s history in South Africa pp. 445-450

Amy Rommelspacher

New perspectives and sources of the history of banking in Latin America and Spain, nineteenth to twentieth centuries pp. 451-463

Carlos Marichal and Guillermo Barragán

Volume 36, issue 2, 2021

Macroeconomic history in South Africa: The South African Reserve Bank centennial special issue pp. 117-121

Johan Fourie

Professor Vishnu Padayachee, 1952–2021 pp. 122-123

Bradley Bordiss and Jannie Rossouw

Bourses, banks, and Boers: Johannesburg’s French connections and the Paris Krach of 1895 pp. 124-148

Mariusz Lukasiewicz

The growth and diversity of the Cape private capital market, 1892–1902 pp. 149-174

Lloyd Melusi Maphosa, Anton Ehlers, Johan Fourie and Edward M. Kerby

Gold and South Africa’s Great Depression pp. 175-193

Barry Eichengreen

Two of the most eventful years in the history of the South African Reserve Bank: William Henry Clegg and Johannes Postmus and the 1931–1932 crisis pp. 194-212

Bradley Bordiss, Vishnu Padayachee and Jannie Rossouw

The fuel of unparalleled recovery: Monetary policy in South Africa between 1925 and 1936 pp. 213-244

Christie Swanepoel and Philip T. Fliers

One hundred years of private shareholding in the South African Reserve Bank pp. 245-263

Cobus Vermeulen

A tale of paper and gold: The material history of money in South Africa pp. 264-281

Ellen Feingold, Johan Fourie and Leigh Gardner

The evolution of central bank communication as experienced by the South Africa Reserve Bank pp. 282-312

Gideon du Rand, Ruan Erasmus, Hylton Hollander, Monique Reid and Dawie van Lill

The South African small banks’ crisis of 2002/3 pp. 313-338

Roy Havemann

South Africa’s 2003–2013 credit boom and bust: Lessons for macroprudential policy pp. 339-365

Hylton Hollander and Roy Havemann

Volume 36, issue 1, 2021

Poverty and inequality in Francophone Africa, 1960s–2010s pp. 1-29

Sédi-Anne Boukaka, Giulia Mancini and Giovanni Vecchi

Colonial legacy, private property, and rural development: Evidence from Namibian countryside pp. 30-56

Vladimir Chlouba and Jianzi He

Structural change in a small natural resource intensive economy: Switching between diversification and re-primarization, Uruguay, 1870–2017 pp. 57-81

Carolina Román and Henry Willebald

Parliamentary experience and contemporary democracy in Africa: A Northian view pp. 82-115

Keneck Massil Joseph and Sophie Harnay

Volume 35, issue 3, 2020

Planning China’s future: Liu Guojun's conception of China’s post-war economic recovery pp. 155-170

Carles Brasó Broggi and Jixia Ge

‘Hit your man where you can’: Taxation strategies in the face of resistance at the British Cape Colony, c.1820 to 1910 pp. 171-194

Abel Gwaindepi and Franz Siebrits

Transportation infrastructure and economic growth in a dissolving country: (Ir)relevance of railroads in the Ottoman Empire pp. 195-215

Avni Hanedar and Sezgin Uysal

The emergence and resolution of a quality problem in the Chinese tung oil market 1890 to 1937 pp. 216-236

Masataka Setobayashi

Volume 35, issue 2, 2020

Beyond national markets: The case of emerging African multinationals pp. 71-97

Ebes Esho and Grietjie Verhoef

The substitutability of slaves: Evidence from the eastern frontier of the Cape Colony pp. 98-122

Calumet Links, Johan Fourie and Erik Green

The business of barter on the pre-colonial Gold Coast pp. 123-142

Klas Rönnbäck

Statistical sources and African post-colonial economic history: Notes from the (digital) archives pp. 143-154

Rebecca Simson

Volume 35, issue 1, 2020

Frank Stuart Jones, 29 March 1933–19 October 2019 pp. 1-2

Grietjie Verhoef

American slavery and labour market power pp. 3-22

Suresh Naidu

Post offices and British Indian grain price convergence pp. 23-49

Tahir Andrabi, Sheetal Bharat and Michael Kuehlwein

Common markets and the decolonization of ‘British Africa’: The role of economics and economists pp. 50-70

Kenneth Button

Volume 34, issue 3, 2019

Special issue on ‘Africa and China: Emerging patterns of engagement’ pp. 251-258

Emmanuel Akyeampong and Hippolyte Fofack

Seven decades of Chinese state financing in Africa: Tempering current debates pp. 259-279

Austin Strange

Clientelism at work? A case study of Kenyan Standard Gauge Railway project pp. 280-299

Yuan Wang and Uwe Wissenbach

Factory, family, and industrial frontier: A socioeconomic study of Chinese clothing firms in Newcastle, South Africa pp. 300-319

Liang Xu

Volume 34, issue 2, 2019

Who Writes African Economic History? pp. 111-131

Johan Fourie

The Complementarity Between Property Rights and Market Access for Crop Cultivation in Southern Rhodesia: Evidence from Historical Satellite Data pp. 132-155

Tawanda Chingozha and Dieter von Fintel

Economic and Political Factors in Infrastructure Investment: Evidence from Railroads and Roads in Africa 1960–2015 pp. 156-208

Remi Jedwab and Adam Storeygard

Is Africa Different? Historical Conflict and State Development pp. 209-250

Mark Dincecco, James Fenske and Massimiliano Onorato

Volume 34, issue 1, 2019

Fifty years of African economic history pp. 1-15

A. G. Hopkins

The Impact of a ‘Colonizing River’: Colonial Railways and the Indigenous Population in French Algeria at the turn of the Century pp. 16-47

Laura Maravall Buckwalter

‘Unobtrusively into the ranks of colonial society’: Intergenerational wealth mobility in the Cape Colony over the eighteenth century pp. 48-71

Jeanne Cilliers, Johan Fourie and Christie Swanepoel

Labour Control and the Establishment of Profitable Settler Agriculture in Colonial Kenya, c. 1920–45 pp. 72-110

Maria Fibaek and Erik Green

Volume 33, issue 3, 2018

The Long-Term Effects of Extractive Institutions: Evidence from Trade Policies in Colonial French Africa pp. 183-208

Federico Tadei

The Montevideo-Oxford Latin American Economic History Database (MOxLAD): Origins, Contents and Sources pp. 209-224

Luis Bertola and María Rey

Were early banks important for economic growth? Evidence from Latin America pp. 225-258

Luis Zegarra

Volume 33, issue 2, 2018

EHDR and the economic history of Eastern Europe pp. 89-89

Leigh Gardner, Alex Klein, Mikołaj Malinowski and Tamás Vonyó

Technology and scale changes: The steel industry of a planned economy in a comparative perspective pp. 90-122

Hana Nielsen

Wages of male and female domestic workers in the Cossack Hetmanate: Poltava, 1765 to 1769 pp. 123-146

Tymofii Brik

The Social Structure of the Real Estate Market in Old Warsaw in the Years 1427–1527 pp. 147-182

Piotr Łozowski

Volume 33, issue 1, 2018

Ancestral Characteristics of Modern Populations pp. 1-17

Paola Giuliano and Nathan Nunn

Staple Trade, Real Wages, and Living Standards in Singapore, 1870–1939 pp. 18-50

Keen Meng Choy and Ichiro Sugimoto

Politics and policies: Determinants of South Africa's monetary policy problems in the 1980s pp. 51-68

Jannie Rossouw

African socialism; or, the search for an indigenous model of economic development? pp. 69-87

Emmanuel Akyeampong