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May 2024, Volume 39, Issue 2
- 105-144 Colonial agricultural estates and rural development in twentieth-century Mexico
by Luz Marina Arias & Diana Flores-Peregrina - 145-168 Using Hong Kong as a springboard: China’s indirect exports via Hong Kong in the 1950s
by Kei Uenishi - 169-195 Profits and inequality during an export boom. Evidence from tax records in Lima, Peru
by Luis Felipe Zegarra - 196-217 Mild Arabica coffee trade at a time of market regulation
by Andrea Montero-Mora & Marc Badia-Miró
January 2024, Volume 39, Issue 1
- 1-27 The colonial gap: An analysis of income distribution in the Port of Dakar, 1911–1940
by Daniel Castillo Hidalgo - 28-48 The economic response of the Israeli government to a rapid influx of immigrants by the founding of the state, 1948–1953: Expansionary fiscal policy and rationing
by Andrew Schein - 49-81 The sins of the church: The long-term impacts of Christian missionary praxis on HIV and sexual behaviour in Zambia
by Michael Chanda Chiseni - 82-104 Child labour, Africa’s colonial system, and coercion: The case of the Portuguese colonies, 1870–1975
by Pedro Vaz Goulart
September 2023, Volume 38, Issue 3
- 215-255 The development of colonial health care provision in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire: ca. 1900–55
by Arlinde C.E. Vrooman - 256-280 The emergence of Brazil as a major world sugar and ethanol producer
by Herbert S. Klein & Francisco Vidal Luna - 281-304 Political economy of development in the Arab republics: The state and socio-economic coalitions
by Shimaa Hatab - 305-334 Like the swing of the pendulum: The history of government-sponsored rural settlements in São Paulo, Brazil (1820s–1920s)
by Bruno Gabriel Witzel de Souza - 335-352 Top incomes and the ruling class in Latin American history. Some theoretical and methodological challenges
by Javier E. Rodríguez Weber
May 2023, Volume 38, Issue 2
- 117-150 Living standards of copper mine labour in Chile and the Central African Copperbelt compared, 1920s to 1960s
by Dácil Juif & Sergio Garrido - 151-172 The development of the arid tropics: Lessons for economic history
by Tirthankar Roy - 173-197 Manufacturing convergence in the Southern Cone: New evidence for the industrialization period
by Cecilia Lara - 198-214 On Polish economic historiography in exile, 1945–1989
by Damian Bębnowski
January 2023, Volume 38, Issue 1
- 1-40 Wealth inequality in interwar Poland
by Marcin Wroński - 41-64 Economic inequality in Latin America and Africa, 1650 to 1950: Can a comparison of historical trajectories help to understand underdevelopment?
by Stefania Galli & Dimitrios Theodoridis & Klas Rönnbäck - 65-88 The political economy of development in Belize under the People’s United Party
by Jacob Ferrell & Joel Wainwright - 89-116 Historical African ethnic class stratification systems and intergenerational transmission of education
by Patricia Funjika
September 2022, Volume 37, Issue 3
- 201-226 Market integration via entrepôt: Southeast Asia's rice trade, 1828–1870
by Atsushi Kobayashi - 227-256 Human capital in Chile: The development of numeracy during the last 250 years
by Manuel Llorca-Jaña & Javier Rivas & Ignacio Pérez & Juan Navarrete-Montalvo - 257-287 The agricultural productivity gap: A global vision
by Ángel Luis González-Esteban & Elisa Botella-Rodríguez - 288-314 Wealth inequality in colonial Hispanic-America: Montevideo in the late eighteenth century
by María Inés Moraes & Rebeca Riella & Carolina Vicario & Pablo Marmissolle - 315-332 Historical Christian missions and African societies today: Perspectives from economic history
by Dozie Okoye
May 2022, Volume 37, Issue 2
- 101-127 Indian guinée cloth, West Africa, and the French colonial empire 1826–1925: Colonialism and imperialism as agents of globalization
by Toyomu Masaki - 128-146 The missing boys: Understanding the unbalanced sex ratio in South Africa, 1894–2011
by Francisco J. Marco-Gracia & Johan Fourie - 147-169 Borrower income and loan rates in the credit market of Lima
by Luis Felipe Zegarra - 170-200 Comparative labour productivity in British and Russian manufacturing, circa 1908
by Nikita Lychakov & Dmitrii Saprykin & Nadia Vanteeva
January 2022, Volume 37, Issue 1
- 1-26 Precedents of mass migration: Policies, occupations, and the sorting of foreigners in São Paulo, Brazil (1872)
by Bruno Gabriel Witzel de Souza - 27-49 The colonial struggle over polygamy: Consequences for educational expansion in sub-Saharan Africa
by Bastian Becker - 50-74 Factor endowments, vent for surplus and involutionary process in rural developing economies
by Montserrat López Jerez - 75-99 How accurate are the prices in the British colonial Blue Books?
by Tom Westland
September 2021, Volume 36, Issue 3
- 367-391 Inequality of education in colonial Ghana: European influences and African responses
by Prince Young Aboagye - 392-421 The Portuguese escudo area in Africa and its lessons for monetary unions
by Maria Eugénia Mata & Luís Catela Nunes & Mário Roldão - 422-427 Why we shouldn’t measure women’s labour force participation in pre-industrial countries
by Joyce Burnette - 428-438 Gender equality, growth, and how a technological trap destroyed female work
by Jane Humphries & Benjamin Schneider - 439-444 Gender and settler labour markets: The marriage bar in colonial Zimbabwe
by Ushehwedu Kufakurinani - 445-450 Restating the case for women’s history in South Africa
by Amy Rommelspacher - 451-463 New perspectives and sources of the history of banking in Latin America and Spain, nineteenth to twentieth centuries
by Carlos Marichal & Guillermo Barragán
May 2021, Volume 36, Issue 2
- 117-121 Macroeconomic history in South Africa: The South African Reserve Bank centennial special issue
by Johan Fourie - 122-123 Professor Vishnu Padayachee, 1952–2021
by Bradley Bordiss & Jannie Rossouw - 124-148 Bourses, banks, and Boers: Johannesburg’s French connections and the Paris Krach of 1895
by Mariusz Lukasiewicz - 149-174 The growth and diversity of the Cape private capital market, 1892–1902
by Lloyd Melusi Maphosa & Anton Ehlers & Johan Fourie & Edward M. Kerby - 175-193 Gold and South Africa’s Great Depression
by Barry Eichengreen - 194-212 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
by Bradley Bordiss & Vishnu Padayachee & Jannie Rossouw - 213-244 The fuel of unparalleled recovery: Monetary policy in South Africa between 1925 and 1936
by Christie Swanepoel & Philip T. Fliers - 245-263 One hundred years of private shareholding in the South African Reserve Bank
by Cobus Vermeulen - 264-281 A tale of paper and gold: The material history of money in South Africa
by Ellen Feingold & Johan Fourie & Leigh Gardner - 282-312 The evolution of central bank communication as experienced by the South Africa Reserve Bank
by Gideon du Rand & Ruan Erasmus & Hylton Hollander & Monique Reid & Dawie van Lill - 313-338 The South African small banks’ crisis of 2002/3
by Roy Havemann - 339-365 South Africa’s 2003–2013 credit boom and bust: Lessons for macroprudential policy
by Hylton Hollander & Roy Havemann
January 2021, Volume 36, Issue 1
- 1-29 Poverty and inequality in Francophone Africa, 1960s–2010s
by Sédi-Anne Boukaka & Giulia Mancini & Giovanni Vecchi - 30-56 Colonial legacy, private property, and rural development: Evidence from Namibian countryside
by Vladimir Chlouba & Jianzi He - 57-81 Structural change in a small natural resource intensive economy: Switching between diversification and re-primarization, Uruguay, 1870–2017
by Carolina Román & Henry Willebald - 82-115 Parliamentary experience and contemporary democracy in Africa: A Northian view
by Joseph Keneck Massil & Sophie Harnay
September 2020, Volume 35, Issue 3
- 155-170 Planning China’s future: Liu Guojun's conception of China’s post-war economic recovery
by Carles Brasó Broggi & Jixia Ge - 171-194 ‘Hit your man where you can’: Taxation strategies in the face of resistance at the British Cape Colony, c.1820 to 1910
by Abel Gwaindepi & Krige Siebrits - 195-215 Transportation infrastructure and economic growth in a dissolving country: (Ir)relevance of railroads in the Ottoman Empire
by Avni Önder Hanedar & Sezgin Uysal - 216-236 The emergence and resolution of a quality problem in the Chinese tung oil market 1890 to 1937
by Masataka Setobayashi
July 2020, Volume 35, Issue 2
- 71-97 Beyond national markets: The case of emerging African multinationals
by Ebes Esho & Grietjie Verhoef - 98-122 The substitutability of slaves: Evidence from the eastern frontier of the Cape Colony
by Calumet Links & Johan Fourie & Erik Green - 123-142 The business of barter on the pre-colonial Gold Coast
by Klas Rönnbäck - 143-154 Statistical sources and African post-colonial economic history: Notes from the (digital) archives
by Rebecca Simson
January 2020, Volume 35, Issue 1
- 1-2 Frank Stuart Jones, 29 March 1933–19 October 2019
by Grietjie Verhoef - 3-22 American slavery and labour market power
by Suresh Naidu - 23-49 Post offices and British Indian grain price convergence
by Tahir Andrabi & Sheetal Bharat & Michael Kuehlwein - 50-70 Common markets and the decolonization of ‘British Africa’: The role of economics and economists
by Kenneth Button
September 2019, Volume 34, Issue 3
- 251-258 Special issue on ‘Africa and China: Emerging patterns of engagement’
by Emmanuel Akyeampong & Hippolyte Fofack - 259-279 Seven decades of Chinese state financing in Africa: Tempering current debates
by Austin Strange - 280-299 Clientelism at work? A case study of Kenyan Standard Gauge Railway project
by Yuan Wang & Uwe Wissenbach - 300-319 Factory, family, and industrial frontier: A socioeconomic study of Chinese clothing firms in Newcastle, South Africa
by Liang Xu
May 2019, Volume 34, Issue 2
- 111-131 Who Writes African Economic History?
by Johan Fourie - 132-155 The Complementarity Between Property Rights and Market Access for Crop Cultivation in Southern Rhodesia: Evidence from Historical Satellite Data
by Tawanda Chingozha & Dieter von Fintel - 156-208 Economic and Political Factors in Infrastructure Investment: Evidence from Railroads and Roads in Africa 1960–2015
by Remi Jedwab & Adam Storeygard - 209-250 Is Africa Different? Historical Conflict and State Development
by Mark Dincecco & James Fenske & Massimiliano Gaetano Onorato
January 2019, Volume 34, Issue 1
- 1-15 Fifty years of African economic history
by A. G. Hopkins - 16-47 The Impact of a ‘Colonizing River’: Colonial Railways and the Indigenous Population in French Algeria at the turn of the Century
by Laura Maravall Buckwalter - 48-71 ‘Unobtrusively into the ranks of colonial society’: Intergenerational wealth mobility in the Cape Colony over the eighteenth century
by Jeanne Cilliers & Johan Fourie & Christie Swanepoel - 72-110 Labour Control and the Establishment of Profitable Settler Agriculture in Colonial Kenya, c. 1920–45
by Maria Fibaek & Erik Green
September 2018, Volume 33, Issue 3
- 183-208 The Long-Term Effects of Extractive Institutions: Evidence from Trade Policies in Colonial French Africa
by Federico Tadei - 209-224 The Montevideo-Oxford Latin American Economic History Database (MOxLAD): Origins, Contents and Sources
by Luis Bértola & María Rey - 225-258 Were early banks important for economic growth? Evidence from Latin America
by Luis Felipe Zegarra
May 2018, Volume 33, Issue 2
- 89-89 EHDR and the economic history of Eastern Europe
by Leigh Gardner & Alex Klein & Mikolaj Malinowski & Tamas Vonyo - 90-122 Technology and scale changes: The steel industry of a planned economy in a comparative perspective
by Hana Nielsen - 123-146 Wages of male and female domestic workers in the Cossack Hetmanate: Poltava, 1765 to 1769
by Tymofii Brik - 147-182 The Social Structure of the Real Estate Market in Old Warsaw in the Years 1427–1527
by Piotr Łozowski
January 2018, Volume 33, Issue 1
- 1-17 Ancestral Characteristics of Modern Populations
by Paola Giuliano & Nathan Nunn - 18-50 Staple Trade, Real Wages, and Living Standards in Singapore, 1870–1939
by Keen Meng Choy & Ichiro Sugimoto - 51-68 Politics and policies: Determinants of South Africa's monetary policy problems in the 1980s
by Jannie Rossouw - 69-87 African socialism; or, the search for an indigenous model of economic development?
by Emmanuel Akyeampong
September 2017, Volume 32, Issue 3
- 211-220 150 Years of Economic Progress for African American Men: Measuring Outcomes and Sizing Up Roadblocks
by Marianne H Wanamaker - 221-269 Palm oil plantation productivity during the establishment of the Malaysian refinery sector, 1970–1990
by Lars C. Bruno - 270-300 Seasonal Hunger in the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast, 1900-40
by Paul Shaffer
May 2017, Volume 32, Issue 2
- 97-126 Taxation in the Congo Free State, an exceptional case? (1885–1908)
by Bas De Roo - 127-176 Savings and economic growth: a historical analysis of the Cape Colony economy, 1850–1909
by Lorraine Greyling & Grietjie Verhoef - 177-209 Moving Forward in Rural Ghana: Investing in Social and Human Capital Mitigates Historical Constraints
by David Wuepper & Johannes Sauer
January 2017, Volume 32, Issue 1
- 1-36 Human Capital in Republican and New China: Regional and Long-Term Trends
by Bas van Leeuwen & Jieli van Leeuwen-Li & Peter Foldvari - 37-70 Long-Term Dynamics of the State in Francophone West Africa: Fiscal Capacity Pathways 1850–2010
by Jens Andersson - 71-95 The Origins of Import Substituting Industrialization in India
by Tirthankar Roy
September 2016, Volume 31, Issue 2-3
- 225-252 Regional Income Distribution in Mexico: New Long-Term Evidence, 1895–2010
by José Aguilar-Retureta - 253-276 Market Conditions in Preindustrial Poland, 1500–1772
by Mikołaj Malinowski - 277-302 Insurance of Politically Motivated Risks Including Terrorism: The Case of South Africa
by Albert Mushai & Agata MacGregor - 303-344 The Role of Stakeholders in the Historical Evolution of Microfinance in Togo
by Arvind Ashta & Isabelle Demay & Mawuli Couchoro
March 2016, Volume 31, Issue 1
- 1-9 Introduction: Family Systems and Economic Development
by Sarah G. Carmichael & Selin Dilli & Jan Luiten van Zanden - 10-46 Testing Todd and Matching Murdock: Global Data on Historical Family Characteristics
by Auke Rijpma & Sarah G. Carmichael - 47-81 Mind The Gap! The Influence of Family Systems on The Gender Education Gap in Developing Countries, 1950--2005
by Lotte van der Vleuten - 82-135 Family Systems and the Historical Roots of Global Gaps in Democracy
by Selin Dilli - 136-166 The Interplay of Family Systems, Social Networks and Fertility in Europe Cohorts Born Between 1920 and 1960
by Bastian Mönkediek & Hilde A.J. Bras - 167-197 Women, Work and the Family: Is Southeast Asia Different?
by Anne Booth - 198-223 Family, Gender, and Women's Nutritional Status: A Comparison Between Two Himalayan Communities in Nepal
by Dónya S. Madjdian & Hilde A.J. Bras
December 2015, Volume 30, Issue 2
- 95-124 Potential for Diversification? The Role of the Formal Sector in Bechuanaland Protectorate's Economy, 1900-65
by Jutta Bolt & Ellen Hillbom - 125-156 'The Great Divergence' Revisited: The Case of Bengal in Early Modern Times
by Indrajit Ray - 157-181 The Transatlantic Slave Trade and Social Stratification on the Gold Coast
by Klas R�nnb�ck - 182-209 How Global Geo-Politics Shaped South Africa's Post-World War I Monetary Policy: The Case Of Gerhard Vissering And Edwin Kemmerer In South Africa, 1924-25
by Vishnu Padayachee & Bradley Bordiss
June 2015, Volume 30, Issue 1
- 1-22 Social Capital and Human Capital in the Colonies: A Study of Cocoa Farmers in Western Nigeria
by Nonso Obikili - 23-43 Slow growth, supply shocks and structural change: The GDP of the Cape Colony in the late nineteenth century
by Lorraine Greyling & Grietjie Verhoef - 44-67 Labour-Intensive Industrialization in Global History: A Review Essay
by Ewout Frankema - 68-78 The Internationalization of Economic History: Perspectives from the African Frontier
by Erik Green & Pius Nyambara - 79-94 African Economic History in Africa
by Gareth Austin
December 2014, Volume 29, Issue 2
- 113-125 The economics of apartheid: An introduction
by Martine Mariotti & Johan Fourie - 126-145 Some stepping stones in the economic modelling of apartheid
by Mats Lundahl - 146-169 An Economic Model of the Apartheid State
by Anton D. Lowenberg - 170-196 If neither capitalism nor communism, then what? DF Malan and the National Party's economic rhetoric, 1895-1954
by Lindie Koorts - 197-233 Policy, practice and perception: Reconsidering the efficacy and meaning of statutory job reservation in South Africa, 1956-1979
by Martine Mariotti & Danelle van Zyl-Hermann - 234-244 The transition from apartheid: Social spending shifts preceded political reform
by Servaas van der Berg - 245-267 Deconstructing Profitability under Apartheid: 1960-1989
by Nicoli Nattrass - 268-286 The Exchange Control System under Apartheid
by Roy Havemann - 287-310 The African Middle Class in South Africa 1910-1994
by Roger Southall - 311-335 Does the language of instruction in primary school affect later labour market outcomes? Evidence from South Africa
by Katherine Eriksson - 336-352 The Spatial Persistence of Population and Wealth During Apartheid: Comparing the 1911 and 2011 Censuses
by Waldo Krugell
June 2014, Volume 29, Issue 1
- 1-14 The Internationalization of Economic History: A Puzzle
by Johan Fourie & Leigh Gardner - 15-41 The Rise and Fall of Indian Economic History 1920-2013
by Tirthankar Roy - 42-73 The Contribution of African Women to Economic Growth and Development in the Pre-Colonial and Colonial Periods: Historical Perspectives and Policy Implications
by Emmanuel Akyeampong & Hippolyte Fofack - 74-112 Missionaries and female empowerment in colonial Uganda: New evidence from Protestant marriage registers, 1880-1945
by Felix Meier zu Selhausen
December 2013, Volume 28, Issue 2
- 1-26 Intraregional Trade in South America, 1912-1950: The Cases of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile and Peru
by Anna Carreras-Mar�n & Marc Badia-Mir� & Jos� Peres Caj�as - 27-55 The Krakatau Eruption in 1883: Its Implications for the Spatial Distribution of Population in Java
by Aloysius Gunadi Brata & Piet Rietveld & Henri L.F. de Groot & Wouter Zant - 56-82 Poverty and Physical Well-being among the Coloured Population in South Africa
by Kris Inwood & Oliver Masakure - 83-111 Who, Where, and When were the Cape Gentry?
by Gavin Williams
June 2013, Volume 28, Issue 1
- 1-27 Indian Regional Income Inequality: Estimates Of Provincial Gdp, 1875-1911
by Paul Caruana-Galizia - 28-68 On The Accuracy Of Export Growth In Argentina, 1870-1913
by Antonio Tena-Junguito & Henry Willebald - 69-86 The Rise And Fall Of Serfdom In China: A Theory Of Institutional Change
by Guo-ping He - 87-108 The Wealth Of Cape Colony Widows: Inheritance Laws And Investment Responses Following Male Death In The 17th And 18th Centuries
by Dieter von Fintel & Sophia Du Plessis & Ada Jansen
2012, Volume 27, Issue S1
- 1-1 The Roots of Development
by Johan Fourie - 2-2 Introduction
by Grietjie Verhoef - 3-15 Economic History Matters
by Nicholas Crafts - 16-27 In Good Company: About Agency and Economic Development in Global Perspective
by Jan Luiten van Zanden - 28-40 Colonisation and Development
by Stanley Engerman & Kenneth Sokoloff - 41-56 Political Power and Institutional Change: Lessons from the Middle East
by Şevket Pamuk - 57-65 Beyond Divergence: Rethinking the Economic History of India
by Tirthankar Roy - 66-85 Growing Tall but Unequal: New Findings and New Background Evidence on Anthropometric Welfare in 156 Countries, 1810–1989
by Joerg Baten & Matthias Blum - 86-91 Public Welfare and Economic Growth
by Anne McCants - 92-107 Demography, Disease, and Development: An Evolutionary Approach
by Robert McGuire - 108-126 Culture and the Historical Process
by Nathan Nunn - 127-135 Predicting the Next Panic: The Pioneering Economic Forecasters and their Legacies
by Walter Friedman - 136-148 Contemporary Development and Economic History: How do we Know what Matters?
by Kenneth Pomeranz
December 2012, Volume 27, Issue 2
- 1-36 Output Per Head In Pre-Independence Africa: Quantitative Conjectures
by Leandro Prados de la Escosura - 37-46 Good Money Drives Out Bad: A Note On Free Coinage And Gresham'S Law In The Chinese Han Dynasty
by Yen-liang Chen & Cheng-chung Lai - 47-60 Estimating The Substitutability Of African And White Workers In South African Manufacturing, 1950-1985
by Martine Mariotti - 61-86 New Estimates Of Settler Life Span And Other Demographic Trends In South Africa, 1652-1948
by Jeanne Cilliers & Johan Fourie - 87-113 QUANTIFYING FREIGHT TRANSPORT VOLUMES IN DEVELOPING REGIONS: LESSONS LEARNT FROM SOUTH AFRICA'S EXPERIENCE DURING THE 20th CENTURY
by J.H. Havenga & W.J. Pienaar
2012, Volume 27, Issue 1
- 1-37 Serfdom, Emancipation, and Off-farm Labour Mobility in Tsarist Russia
by Steven Nafziger - 38-66 The Needham Puzzle Reconsidered: The Protection of Industrial and Commercial Property Rights
by Qiang Chen - 67-92 Membership Size and Cooperative Performance: Evidence from Ghanaian Cocoa Producers' Societies, 1930–36
by Chiara Cazzuffi & Alexander Moradi - 93-113 The Global Status of Economic History
by Joerg Baten & Julia Muschallik - 114-124 The Future of South African Economic History
by Johan Fourie & Stefan Schirmer - 125-149 Happy in the Service of the Company: The Purchasing Power of VOC Salaries at the Cape in the 18th Century
by Sophia Du Plessis & Stan Du Plessis - 150-175 Inheriting the Future: Intergenerational Persistence of Educational Status in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
by Justine Burns & Malcolm Keswell - 176-208 Economic Growth in South Africa
by Johannes Fedderke & Charles Simkins