N47 | Economic Research Southern Africa

JEL code: N47

Economic History: Government, War, Law, International Relations, and Regulation: Africa; Oceania

Measuring institutions during and after colonisation in Senegal (1819-2010)

Most of the widely used indicators of institutions have been critic...

Elise W. Sonne, Maty Konte

Working Paper

Measurement and analysis of the evolution of institutions in Nigeria

“Institutions matter” has become a generally accepted premise in de...

Johannes W. Fedderke, Mare Sarr, David O. Fadiran

Working Paper

Path dependence and interdependence between institutions and development

Path dependence theory, within the institutions context, means that...

Mare Sarr, David Fadiran

Policy Brief

An economic model of the apartheid state

Rather than a rigid racial ideology, it is argued that South Africa...

Anton D. Lowenberg

Working Paper

The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and Local Political Fragmentation in Africa

I examine the possibility that the trans-Atlantic slave trades infl...

Nonso Obikili

Working Paper

Pearls worth Rds4000 or less: Reinterpreting eighteenth century sumptuary laws at the Cape

Governor Ryk Tulbagh promulgated sumptuary laws at the Cape in 1755...

Stan Du Plessis

Working Paper

The Legacy of Historical Conflict Evidence from Africa

This paper exploits variation between and within countries to exami...

Marta Reynal-Querol, Timothy Besley

Working Paper

Constructing Institutional Measures: Indicators of Political and Property Rights in Moz...

In this paper we focus on the role of political and economic instit...

Guilherme Oliviera, John M. Luiz, Luis B. Pereira

Working Paper

A theory of colonial goverance

This paper considers conditions of optimality in a co-optive strate...

Johannes W. Fedderke, Julius A. Agbor, Nicola Viegi

Working Paper