This paper reviews the state of research in African economic history in tropical Africa,
reaching a more pessimistic conclusion than Green and Nyambara. The subject has seen a …

Colonial extractive institutions are often blamed for current African underdevelopment. Yet,
since colonial extraction is hard to quantify, the magnitude of this phenomenon remains …

The development of living standards in Java has long been a subject of scholarly interest. A
number of scholars have suggested that between 1600 and 1900 Southeast Asian living …

While Ghana is a classic case of economic growth in an agricultural-export colony, scholars
have queried whether it was sustained, and how far its benefits were widely distributed …

To what extent did the 18th century intensification of the transatlantic slave trade boost
commercial agriculture in the coastal areas of West Africa? Exploring the provisioning …

The development of living standards in Java has long been a subject of scholarly interest. A
number of scholars have suggested that between and Southeast Asian living …