Economic History of Developing Regions

2012 - 2024

Current editor(s): Alex Klein and Alfonso Herranz-Loncan

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

150 Years of Economic Progress for African American Men: Measuring Outcomes and Sizing Up Roadblocks pp. 211-220: Marianne H Wanamaker
Palm oil plantation productivity during the establishment of the Malaysian refinery sector, 1970–1990 pp. 221-269: Lars C. Bruno
Seasonal Hunger in the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast, 1900-40 pp. 270-300: Paul Shaffer

Taxation in the Congo Free State, an exceptional case? (1885–1908) pp. 97-126: Bas De Roo
Savings and economic growth: a historical analysis of the Cape Colony economy, 1850–1909 pp. 127-176: Lorraine Greyling and Grietjie Verhoef
Moving Forward in Rural Ghana: Investing in Social and Human Capital Mitigates Historical Constraints pp. 177-209: David Wuepper and Johannes Sauer

Human Capital in Republican and New China: Regional and Long-Term Trends pp. 1-36: Bas van Leeuwen, Jieli van Leeuwen-Li and Péter Földvári
Long-Term Dynamics of the State in Francophone West Africa: Fiscal Capacity Pathways 1850–2010 pp. 37-70: Jens Andersson
The Origins of Import Substituting Industrialization in India pp. 71-95: Tirthankar Roy

Regional Income Distribution in Mexico: New Long-Term Evidence, 1895–2010 pp. 225-252: José Aguilar-Retureta
Market Conditions in Preindustrial Poland, 1500–1772 pp. 253-276: Mikołaj Malinowski
Insurance of Politically Motivated Risks Including Terrorism: The Case of South Africa pp. 277-302: Albert Mushai and Agata MacGregor
The Role of Stakeholders in the Historical Evolution of Microfinance in Togo pp. 303-344: Arvind Ashta, Isabelle Demay and Mawuli Couchoro

Introduction: Family Systems and Economic Development pp. 1-9: Sarah G. Carmichael, Selin Dilli and Jan Luiten van Zanden
Testing Todd and Matching Murdock: Global Data on Historical Family Characteristics pp. 10-46: Auke Rijpma and Sarah G. Carmichael
Mind The Gap! The Influence of Family Systems on The Gender Education Gap in Developing Countries, 1950--2005 pp. 47-81: Lotte van der Vleuten
Family Systems and the Historical Roots of Global Gaps in Democracy pp. 82-135: Selin Dilli
The Interplay of Family Systems, Social Networks and Fertility in Europe Cohorts Born Between 1920 and 1960 pp. 136-166: Bastian Mönkediek and Hilde A.J. Bras
Women, Work and the Family: Is Southeast Asia Different? pp. 167-197: Anne Booth
Family, Gender, and Women's Nutritional Status: A Comparison Between Two Himalayan Communities in Nepal pp. 198-223: Dónya S. Madjdian and Hilde A.J. Bras