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Keyword: Economic History

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Call for Application

June 22, 2023

Call for Application: An ERSA Research Workshop: Longitudinal Data in African History

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Call for Application

June 21, 2023

Call for Application: Training Workshop for Graduate Students: South African Economic H...

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Call for Papers

June 21, 2023

Call for Papers: Economic History/Macroeconomic Workshop Jan 2015

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Call for Papers

June 21, 2023

Call for Papers: An ERSA Research Workshop: The fiscal history of Sub-Saharan Africa

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Workshop

May 9, 2023

3rd University of Pretoria-Stellenbosch PhD Workshop

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Working Paper

Edward Kerby, Roy Havemann

March 1, 2021

Reigniting economic growth: Lessons from three centuries of data

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Working Paper

Abel Gwaindepi, Johan Fourie

May 16, 2019

The origin of extractive states in Africa: The case of the British Cape Colony, 1834-1909

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Working Paper

Biniam E. Bedasso

October 19, 2017

Measuring political and economic institutions in Ethiopia: c.1888 –2016

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Workshop

African Economic History Network, ERSA, Harvard University's Centre for African African Studies, Laboratory for the Economics Africa's Past

February 24, 2017

7th Annual Meeting of the African Economic History Network: Innovation and the African ...

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Working Paper

Bokang Mpeta, Johan Fourie, Kris Inwood

February 23, 2017

Black living standards in South Africa before democracy: New evidence from heights

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Working Paper

Dieter von Fintel, Louw Pienaar

November 10, 2016

Small-scale farming and food security: the enabling role of cash transfers in South Afr...

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Policy Brief

Jeanne Cilliers, Johan Fourie

November 9, 2016

Intergenerational mobility during industrial take-off

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Workshop

ERSA

December 1, 2015

What church records can tell us about economic development

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Working Paper

Jannie Rossouw

October 26, 2015

An analysis of the accuracy of South Africa's inflation figures since 1922

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Working Paper

Johan Fourie

October 23, 2015

The data revolution in African economic history

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Working Paper

Alfonso Herranz-Loncan, Johan Fourie

August 27, 2015

Growth (and segregation) by rail: How the railways shaped Colonial South Africa

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Policy Brief

Dieter von Fintel, Rulof P. Burger

August 25, 2015

Rising unemployment in post-apartheid South Africa: temporary or persistent?

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Working Paper

Christie Swanepoel, Johan Fourie

May 15, 2015

“Impending ruin” or “remarkable wealth”? The role of private credit markets in a settle...

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Working Paper

Johan Fourie, Roy Havemann

April 2, 2015

The Cape of Perfect Storms: Colonial Africa’s first financial crash, 1788-1793

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Workshop

February 6, 2015

An ERSA Research Workshop: The fiscal history of Sub-Saharan Africa

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Workshop

ERSA

February 4, 2015

An ERSA Research Workshop: Longitudinal Data in African History

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Working Paper

Christie Swanepoel, Johan Fourie

January 26, 2015

When selection trumps persistence: The lasting effect of missionary education in South ...

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Workshop

Joost Jonkers

October 30, 2014

Economic History/Macroeconomic Workshop Jan 2015

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Working Paper

Waldo F. Krugell

September 8, 2014

The spatial persistence of population and wealth during apartheid: comparing the 1911 a...

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Working Paper

Anton D. Lowenberg

August 18, 2014

An economic model of the apartheid state

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Working Paper

Roger Southall

August 18, 2014

The African Middle Class in South Africa 1910-1994

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Working Paper

Roger Southall

August 18, 2014

The African Middle Class in South Africa 1910-1994

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Workshop

ERSA

August 12, 2014

Training Workshop for Graduate Students: South African Economic History

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Working Paper

Erik Green, Johan Fourie

March 5, 2014

The missing people: Accounting for indigenous populations in Cape Colonial history

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Working Paper

Grietjie Verhoef, John W. M. Mwamba, Lorraine Greyling

January 21, 2014

Savings and economic growth: A historical analysis of the relationship between savings ...

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ERSA

January 16, 2014

Climate, geography and African economic history

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Working Paper

Justin Visagie

November 28, 2013

Race, gender and growth of the affluent middle class in post-apartheid South Africa

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Working Paper

Johan Fourie

September 9, 2013

The quantitative Cape: Notes from a new Histriography of the Dutch Cape Colony

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Workshop

ERSA

September 6, 2013

A country of migrants: Advances in South African economic history

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Working Paper

Stan Du Plessis

March 18, 2013

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

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Working Paper

Alexander Moradi, Gareth Austin, Jörg Baten

January 15, 2013

Heights and development in a Cash-Crop Colony: Living standards in Ghana, 1870-1980