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...

Published: 2 August 2017

Working Paper

Measurement and analysis of the evolution of institutions in Nigeria

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

Published: 13 February 2017

Working Paper

Path dependence and interdependence between institutions and development

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

Published: 3 October 2016

Policy Brief

An economic model of the apartheid state

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

Published: 18 August 2014

Working Paper

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

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

Published: 14 January 2014

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...

Published: 18 March 2013

Working Paper

The Legacy of Historical Conflict Evidence from Africa

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

Published: 8 February 2013

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...

Published: 23 September 2012

Working Paper

A theory of colonial goverance

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

Published: 22 September 2012

Working Paper