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Leigh Gardner

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First Name:Leigh
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Last Name:Gardner
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RePEc Short-ID:pga897
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https://www.leighgardner.com/
Terminal Degree:2010 Oxford Center for Economic and Social History; Oxford University (from RePEc Genealogy)

Affiliation

Department of Economic History
London School of Economics (LSE)

London, United Kingdom
http://www.lse.ac.uk/Economic-History
RePEc:edi:chlseuk (more details at EDIRC)

Research output

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Working papers

  1. Gardner, Leigh, 2023. "Slavery, coercion, and economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 120394, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
  2. Broadberry, Stephen & Gardner, Leigh, 2022. "Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: evidence from eight countries," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 113568, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
  3. Jutta Bolt & Leigh Gardner & Jennifer Kohler & Jack Paine & James A. Robinson, 2022. "African Political Institutions and the Impact of Colonialism," NBER Working Papers 30582, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  4. Gardner, Leigh, 2022. "The collapse of the gold standard in Africa: money and colonialism in the interwar period," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 116665, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
  5. Feingold, Ellen & Fourie, Johan & Gardner, Leigh, 2021. "A tale of paper and gold: the material history of money in South Africa," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 110367, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
  6. Bolt, Jutta & Gardner, Leigh, 2020. "How Africans shaped British colonial institutions: evidence from local taxation," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 107519, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
  7. Broadberry, Stephen & Gardner, Leigh, 2019. "Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885-2008," CAGE Online Working Paper Series 425, Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE).
  8. Bolt, Jutta & Gardner, Leigh, 2019. "African institutions under colonial rule," CEPR Discussion Papers 14198, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  9. Bolt, Jutta & Gardner, Leigh, 2018. "Tax Compliance under Indirect Rule in British Africa," African Economic History Working Paper 40/2018, African Economic History Network.
  10. Gardner, Leigh, 2015. "The curious incident of the franc in the Gambia: exchange rate instability and imperial monetary systems in the 1920s," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 65070, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
  11. Broadberry, Stephen & Gardner, Leigh, 2015. "Economic Development In Africa And Europe : Reciprocal Comparisons," CAGE Online Working Paper Series 232, Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE).
  12. Gardner, Leigh, 2014. "The rise and fall of sterling in Liberia, 1847–1943," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 88849, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
  13. Fourie, Johan & Gardner, Leigh, 2014. "The internationalization of economic history: a puzzle," Economic History Working Papers 56786, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.
  14. Gardner, Leigh, 2014. "The Curious Incident of the Franc in the Gambia: Floating Exchange Rates and the British Imperial Monetary System in the 1920s," African Economic History Working Paper 19/2014, African Economic History Network.
  15. Broadberry, Stephen & Gardner, Leigh, 2014. "African economic growth in a European mirror: a historical perspective," Economic History Working Papers 56493, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.
  16. Broadberry, Stephen & Gardner, Leigh, 2013. "Africa's Growth Prospects in a European mirror: a Historical Perspective," CAGE Online Working Paper Series 172, Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE).
  17. Gardner, Leigh, 2008. "To take or to make?: contracting for legitimacy in the emerging states of twelth century Britain," Economic History Working Papers 36861, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.

Articles

  1. Gardner, Leigh, 2023. "Slavery, Coercion, and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa," Business History Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 97(2), pages 199-223, June.
  2. Broadberry, Stephen & Gardner, Leigh, 2022. "Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 83(C).
  3. Ellen Feingold & Johan Fourie & Leigh Gardner, 2021. "A tale of paper and gold: The material history of money in South Africa," Economic History of Developing Regions, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 36(2), pages 264-281, May.
  4. Bolt, Jutta & Gardner, Leigh, 2020. "How Africans Shaped British Colonial Institutions: Evidence from Local Taxation," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 80(4), pages 1189-1223, December.
  5. Leigh Gardner & Alex Klein & Mikolaj Malinowski & Tamas Vonyo, 2018. "EHDR and the economic history of Eastern Europe," Economic History of Developing Regions, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 33(2), pages 89-89, May.
  6. Leigh Gardner, 2017. "Colonialism or supersanctions: sovereignty and debt in West Africa, 1871–1914," European Review of Economic History, European Historical Economics Society, vol. 21(2), pages 236-257.
  7. Broadberry, Stephen & Gardner, Leigh, 2016. "Economic Development In Africa And Europe: Reciprocal Comparisons," Revista de Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 34(1), pages 11-37, March.
  8. Gardner, Leigh, 2015. "The curious incident of the franc in the Gambia: exchange rate instability and imperial monetary systems in the 1920s," Financial History Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 22(3), pages 291-314, December.
  9. Leigh Gardner, 2014. "William G. Martin , South Africa and the world economy: remaking race, state and region ( Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press , 2013 . Pp. x + 271. 10 figs. 1 tabs. ISBN 9781580464314 Hbk. £," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 67(3), pages 887-888, August.
  10. Leigh A. Gardner, 2014. "The rise and fall of sterling in Liberia, 1847–1943," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 67(4), pages 1089-1112, November.
  11. Johan Fourie & Leigh Gardner, 2014. "The Internationalization of Economic History: A Puzzle," Economic History of Developing Regions, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 29(1), pages 1-14, June.

Chapters

  1. Leigh Gardner, 2020. "Trading Sovereignty for Capital? Public Debt in West Africa, 1871–1914," Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance, in: Nicolas Barreyre & Nicolas Delalande (ed.), A World of Public Debts, edition 1, chapter 0, pages 175-199, Palgrave Macmillan.

Books

  1. Gardner,Leigh A., 2022. "Sovereignty without Power," Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press, number 9781009181105, January.
  2. Gardner, Leigh A., 2012. "Taxing Colonial Africa: The Political Economy of British Imperialism," OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press, number 9780199661527.

Editorship

  1. Economic History of Developing Regions, Taylor & Francis Journals.

Citations

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Blog mentions

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  1. Fourie, Johan & Gardner, Leigh, 2014. "The internationalization of economic history: a puzzle," Economic History Working Papers 56786, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.

    Mentioned in:

    1. On the economic histories of developing regions
      by Johan Fourie in Johan Fourie's Blog on 2014-05-20 09:33:28

Working papers

  1. Broadberry, Stephen & Gardner, Leigh, 2022. "Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: evidence from eight countries," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 113568, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.

    Cited by:

    1. Víctor Hugo Fernández-Bedoya & Monica Elisa Meneses-La-Riva & Josefina Amanda Suyo-Vega & Johanna de Jesús Stephanie Gago-Chávez, 2023. "Entrepreneurship Research in Times of COVID-19: Experiences from South America," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(7), pages 1-17, March.
    2. Selhausen, Felix Meier zu & Weisdorf, Jacob, 2024. "Gender Inequality and the Colonial Economy: Evidence from Anglican Marriage Registers in Urban British Africa," CAGE Online Working Paper Series 711, Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE).
    3. Habeenzu, Lennon Jambo, 2023. "Determinants of Inclusive Growth in Zambia," African Journal of Economic Review, African Journal of Economic Review, vol. 12(01), March.

  2. Feingold, Ellen & Fourie, Johan & Gardner, Leigh, 2021. "A tale of paper and gold: the material history of money in South Africa," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 110367, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.

    Cited by:

    1. Batiz-Lazo, Bernardo & Bautista-González, Manuel A & González-Correa, Ignacio, 2021. "La transformación en el uso de efectivo y pagos digitales durante la pandemia de Covid-19 [Thye transformation in the use of cash and digital payments during the Covid-19 pandemioc]," MPRA Paper 109943, University Library of Munich, Germany.

  3. Bolt, Jutta & Gardner, Leigh, 2020. "How Africans shaped British colonial institutions: evidence from local taxation," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 107519, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.

    Cited by:

    1. Bolt, Jutta & Gardner, Leigh, 2020. "How Africans shaped British colonial institutions: evidence from local taxation," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 107519, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    2. Easaw, Joshy & Sun, Yang, 2024. "Africa's Slave Trade and its Long-term Impact on Militarism and Institutions," Cardiff Economics Working Papers E2024/22, Cardiff University, Cardiff Business School, Economics Section.
    3. Dozie Okoye & Roland Pongou, 2024. "Missions, fertility transition, and the reversal of fortunes: evidence from border discontinuities in the emirates of Nigeria," Journal of Economic Growth, Springer, vol. 29(2), pages 251-325, June.
    4. Becker, Bastian & Schmitt, Carina, 2023. "License to educate: The role of national networks in colonial empires," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 169(C).
    5. Dozie & Roland Pongou, 2021. "Missions and Heterogeneous Social Change: Evidence from Border Discontinuities in the Emirates of Nigeria," Working Papers 2112E Classification-I20,, University of Ottawa, Department of Economics.

  4. Bolt, Jutta & Gardner, Leigh, 2019. "African institutions under colonial rule," CEPR Discussion Papers 14198, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.

    Cited by:

    1. Cappelli, Gabriele & Baten, Joerg, 2021. "Numeracy development in Africa: New evidence from a long-term perspective (1730–1970)," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 150(C).

  5. Broadberry, Stephen & Gardner, Leigh, 2015. "Economic Development In Africa And Europe : Reciprocal Comparisons," CAGE Online Working Paper Series 232, Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE).

    Cited by:

    1. Bolt, Jutta & Gardner, Leigh, 2020. "How Africans shaped British colonial institutions: evidence from local taxation," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 107519, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    2. Bolt, Jutta & Gardner, Leigh, 2019. "African institutions under colonial rule," CEPR Discussion Papers 14198, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.

  6. Gardner, Leigh, 2014. "The rise and fall of sterling in Liberia, 1847–1943," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 88849, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.

    Cited by:

    1. Feingold, Ellen & Fourie, Johan & Gardner, Leigh, 2021. "A tale of paper and gold: the material history of money in South Africa," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 110367, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    2. Gaiya, Abel B. S., 2023. "How Can I Liberate the Slaves?” The Neglected Tradition of Developmental Abolitionism," SocArXiv rqhau, Center for Open Science.
    3. Gaiya, Abel B. S., 2023. "How Can I Liberate the Slaves?” The Neglected Tradition of Developmental Abolitionism," SocArXiv rqhau_v1, Center for Open Science.
    4. Gardner, Leigh, 2015. "The curious incident of the franc in the Gambia: exchange rate instability and imperial monetary systems in the 1920s," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 65070, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.

  7. Fourie, Johan & Gardner, Leigh, 2014. "The internationalization of economic history: a puzzle," Economic History Working Papers 56786, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.

    Cited by:

    1. Elise Huillery, 2009. "History Matters: The Long-Term Impact of Colonial Public Investments in French West Africa," PSE-Ecole d'économie de Paris (Postprint) hal-00813038, HAL.
    2. Nadia Fernández-de-Pinedo & Alvaro La Parra-Perez & Félix-Fernando Muñoz, 2023. "Recent trends in publications of economic historians in Europe and North America (1980–2019): an empirical analysis," Cliometrica, Journal of Historical Economics and Econometric History, Association Française de Cliométrie (AFC), vol. 17(1), pages 1-22, January.
    3. Johan Fourie, 2019. "Who Writes African Economic History?," Economic History of Developing Regions, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 34(2), pages 111-131, May.
    4. Martina Cioni & Govanni Federico & Michelangelo Vasta, 2018. "Ninety years of publications in Economic History: evidence from the top five field journals (1927-2017)," Department of Economics University of Siena 791, Department of Economics, University of Siena.
    5. Martina Cioni & Giovanni Federico & Michelangelo Vasta, 2020. "The long-term evolution of economic history: evidence from the top five field journals (1927–2017)," Cliometrica, Springer;Cliometric Society (Association Francaise de Cliométrie), vol. 14(1), pages 1-39, January.
    6. Martina Cioni & Giovanni Federico & Michelangelo Vasta, 2021. "Spreading Clio: a quantitative analysis of the first 25 years of the European Review of Economic History [Plague in seventeenth-century Europe and the decline of Italy: an epidemiological hypothesi," European Review of Economic History, European Historical Economics Society, vol. 25(4), pages 618-644.

  8. Broadberry, Stephen & Gardner, Leigh, 2014. "African economic growth in a European mirror: a historical perspective," Economic History Working Papers 56493, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.

    Cited by:

    1. Gareth Austin & Stephen Broadberry, 2014. "Introduction: The renaissance of African economic history," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 67(4), pages 893-906, November.

  9. Broadberry, Stephen & Gardner, Leigh, 2013. "Africa's Growth Prospects in a European mirror: a Historical Perspective," CAGE Online Working Paper Series 172, Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE).

    Cited by:

    1. Lopez-Uribe, Maria del Pilar & Castells-Quintana, David & McDermott, Thomas K. J., 2017. "Geography, institutions and development: a review ofthe long-run impacts of climate change," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 65147, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    2. Naudé, Wim, 2017. "Entrepreneurship, Education and the Fourth Industrial Revolution in Africa," IZA Discussion Papers 10855, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    3. Bhorat, Haroon & Chelwa, Grieve & Naidoo, Karmen & Stanwix, Benjamin, 2017. "Income Inequality Trends in sub-Saharan Africa: Divergence, determinants and consequences: Resource Dependence and Inequality in Africa: Impacts, consequences and potential solutions," UNDP Africa Reports 267645, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
    4. Alka Jauhari, 2018. "African Economic Renaissance: A Case Study of Rwanda and Angola," Insight on Africa, , vol. 10(2), pages 127-149, July.
    5. EZZAHIDI, Elhadj & El Alaoui, Aicha, 2015. "Determinants of the recent growth surge in Africa: what changed since mid-1990s?," MPRA Paper 67792, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    6. McDermott,Thomas K.J., 2016. "Investing in disaster risk management in an uncertain climate," Policy Research Working Paper Series 7631, The World Bank.

  10. Gardner, Leigh, 2008. "To take or to make?: contracting for legitimacy in the emerging states of twelth century Britain," Economic History Working Papers 36861, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.

    Cited by:

    1. Paul David & S. Ryan Johansson & Andrea Pozzi, 2010. "The Demography of an Early Mortality Transition: Life Expectancy, Survival and Mortality Rates for Britain's Royals, 1500-1799," Oxford Economic and Social History Working Papers _083, University of Oxford, Department of Economics.
    2. Amy Blakeway, 2015. "The sixteenth-century price rise: new evidence from Scotland, 1500–85," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 68(1), pages 167-190, February.

Articles

  1. Broadberry, Stephen & Gardner, Leigh, 2022. "Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 83(C).
    See citations under working paper version above.
  2. Ellen Feingold & Johan Fourie & Leigh Gardner, 2021. "A tale of paper and gold: The material history of money in South Africa," Economic History of Developing Regions, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 36(2), pages 264-281, May.
    See citations under working paper version above.
  3. Bolt, Jutta & Gardner, Leigh, 2020. "How Africans Shaped British Colonial Institutions: Evidence from Local Taxation," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 80(4), pages 1189-1223, December.
    See citations under working paper version above.
  4. Leigh Gardner, 2017. "Colonialism or supersanctions: sovereignty and debt in West Africa, 1871–1914," European Review of Economic History, European Historical Economics Society, vol. 21(2), pages 236-257.

    Cited by:

    1. Albers, Thilo N. H. & Jerven, Morten & Suesse, Marvin, 2022. "The Fiscal State in Africa: Evidence from a Century of Growth," Rationality and Competition Discussion Paper Series 316, CRC TRR 190 Rationality and Competition.
    2. Gwaindepi, Abel, 2019. "Serving God and Mammon: The ‘Minerals-Railway Complex’ and its effects on colonial public finances in the British Cape Colony, 1810-1910," African Economic History Working Paper 44/2019, African Economic History Network.
    3. Andreea-Alexandra Maerean & Maja Pedersen & Paul Sharp, 2021. "Sovereign Debt and Supersanctions in Emerging Markets: Evidence from Four Southeast European Countries, 1878-1913," Working Papers 0216, European Historical Economics Society (EHES).
    4. Abel Gwaindepi & Johan Fourie, 2020. "Public Sector Growth in the British Cape Colony: Evidence From New Data on Expenditure and Foreign Debt, 1830‐1910," South African Journal of Economics, Economic Society of South Africa, vol. 88(3), pages 341-367, September.

  5. Broadberry, Stephen & Gardner, Leigh, 2016. "Economic Development In Africa And Europe: Reciprocal Comparisons," Revista de Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 34(1), pages 11-37, March.
    See citations under working paper version above.
  6. Leigh A. Gardner, 2014. "The rise and fall of sterling in Liberia, 1847–1943," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 67(4), pages 1089-1112, November.
    See citations under working paper version above.
  7. Johan Fourie & Leigh Gardner, 2014. "The Internationalization of Economic History: A Puzzle," Economic History of Developing Regions, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 29(1), pages 1-14, June.
    See citations under working paper version above.

Chapters

  1. Leigh Gardner, 2020. "Trading Sovereignty for Capital? Public Debt in West Africa, 1871–1914," Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance, in: Nicolas Barreyre & Nicolas Delalande (ed.), A World of Public Debts, edition 1, chapter 0, pages 175-199, Palgrave Macmillan.

    Cited by:

    1. Andreea-Alexandra Maerean & Maja Pedersen & Paul Sharp, 2021. "Sovereign Debt and Supersanctions in Emerging Markets: Evidence from Four Southeast European Countries, 1878-1913," Working Papers 0216, European Historical Economics Society (EHES).

Books

  1. Gardner, Leigh A., 2012. "Taxing Colonial Africa: The Political Economy of British Imperialism," OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press, number 9780199661527.

    Cited by:

    1. Albers, Thilo N. H. & Jerven, Morten & Suesse, Marvin, 2022. "The Fiscal State in Africa: Evidence from a Century of Growth," Rationality and Competition Discussion Paper Series 316, CRC TRR 190 Rationality and Competition.
    2. Denis Cogneau & Yannick Dupraz & Justine Knebelmann & Sandrine Mesplé-Somps, 2021. "Taxation in Africa from Colonial Times to Present Evidence from former French colonies 1900-2018," PSE Working Papers halshs-03420664, HAL.
    3. Archibong, Belinda, 2019. "Explaining divergence in the long-term effects of precolonial centralization on access to public infrastructure services in Nigeria," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 121(C), pages 123-140.
    4. Abel Gwaindepi, 2021. "Domestic revenue mobilisation in developing countries: An exploratory analysis of sub‐Saharan Africa and Latin America," Journal of International Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 33(2), pages 396-421, March.
    5. Ellen Hillbom & Jutta Bolt & Michiel de Haas & Federico Tadei, 2024. "Income inequality and export‐oriented commercialization in colonial Africa: Evidence from six countries," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 77(3), pages 975-1004, August.
    6. Gwaindepi, Abel, 2019. "Serving God and Mammon: The ‘Minerals-Railway Complex’ and its effects on colonial public finances in the British Cape Colony, 1810-1910," African Economic History Working Paper 44/2019, African Economic History Network.
    7. Ayuso Díaz, Alejandro, 2024. "US and Japan rivalry in Philippine interwar import manufactures market. Powerpolitics, trade cost and competitiveness," IFCS - Working Papers in Economic History.WH 44262, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Instituto Figuerola.
    8. Deng, Hanzhi, 2021. "The merit of misfortune: Taiping Rebellion and the rise of indirect taxation in modern China, 1850s-1900s," Economic History Working Papers 108564, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.
    9. Roy, Tirthankar, 2019. "State capacity and the economic history of colonial India," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 100723, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    10. Leigh A. Gardner, 2014. "The rise and fall of sterling in Liberia, 1847–1943," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 67(4), pages 1089-1112, November.
    11. Bas De Roo, 2017. "Taxation in the Congo Free State, an exceptional case? (1885–1908)," Economic History of Developing Regions, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 32(2), pages 97-126, May.
    12. Jerven , Morten & Austin , Gareth & Green, Erik & Uche , Chibuike & Frankema , Ewout & Fourie , Johan & Inikori , Joseph & Moradi , Alexander & Hillbom , Ellen, 2012. "Moving Forward in African Economic History: Bridging the Gap Between Methods and Sources," African Economic History Working Paper 1/2012, African Economic History Network.
    13. Belinda Archibong, 2016. "Historical origins of persistent inequality in Nigeria," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2016-161, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    14. Broadberry, Stephen & Gardner, Leigh, 2022. "Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 83(C).
    15. Gareth Austin & Stephen Broadberry, 2014. "Introduction: The renaissance of African economic history," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 67(4), pages 893-906, November.
    16. Papaioannou, Elias & Michalopoulos, Stelios, 2018. "Historical Legacies and African Development," CEPR Discussion Papers 13309, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    17. Broadberry, Stephen & Gardner, Leigh A., 2016. "Economic development in Africa and Europe: reciprocal comparisons," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 65069, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    18. Broadberry, Stephen & Gardner, Leigh, 2019. "Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885-2008," CAGE Online Working Paper Series 425, Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE).
    19. Broadberry, Stephen & Gardner, Leigh, 2013. "Africa's Growth Prospects in a European mirror: a Historical Perspective," CAGE Online Working Paper Series 172, Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE).
    20. Andres Irarrazaval, 2022. "The Fiscal Origins of Comparative Inequality levels: An Empirical and Historical Investigation," Working Papers wp531, University of Chile, Department of Economics.
    21. Irarrázaval, Andrés, 2020. "The fiscal origins of comparative inequality levels: an empirical and historical investigation," Economic History Working Papers 107491, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.
    22. Jens Andersson, 2017. "Long-Term Dynamics of the State in Francophone West Africa: Fiscal Capacity Pathways 1850–2010," Economic History of Developing Regions, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 32(1), pages 37-70, January.
    23. Fenske, James & Wang, Shizhuo, 2020. "Tradition and mortality: Evidence from twin infanticide in Africa," CAGE Online Working Paper Series 525, Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE).
    24. Alok Oak, 2022. "Saving Indian Villages: British Empire, the Great Depression and Gandhi’s Civil Disobedience Movement," Studies in Indian Politics, , vol. 10(2), pages 227-241, December.
    25. Ewout Frankema & Marlous van Waijenburg, 2023. "What about the race between education and technology in the Global South? Comparing skill premiums in colonial Africa and Asia," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 76(3), pages 941-978, August.
    26. Dossè Mawussi Djahini‐Afawoubo, 2024. "Understanding tax payment behaviour in the West African Economic and Monetary Union: The role of perceived detection capacity and honesty," Journal of International Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 36(2), pages 795-823, March.
    27. Alejandro Ayuso-Díaz & Antonio Tena-Junguito, 2024. "US and Japan rivalry in Philippine interwar import manufactures market. Power politics, trade cost and competitiveness," Working Papers 0265, European Historical Economics Society (EHES).
    28. Denis Cogneau & Yannick Dupraz & Sandrine Mesplé-Somps, 2018. "African states and development in historical perspective: Colonial public finances in British and French West," Working Papers halshs-01820209, HAL.
    29. Bertazzini, Mattia C., 2018. "The long-term impact of Italian colonial roads in the Horn of Africa, 1935-2000," Economic History Working Papers 87074, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.
    30. Abel Gwaindepi, 2022. "Fiscal capacity in ‘‘responsible government’’ colonies: the Cape Colony in comparative perspective, c. 1865–1910 [The spread of empire: Clio and the measurement of colonial borrowing costs]," European Review of Economic History, European Historical Economics Society, vol. 26(3), pages 340-369.
    31. Gardner, Leigh, 2022. "The collapse of the gold standard in Africa: money and colonialism in the interwar period," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 116665, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    32. Laura Seelkopf & Moritz Bubek & Edgars Eihmanis & Joseph Ganderson & Julian Limberg & Youssef Mnaili & Paula Zuluaga & Philipp Genschel, 2021. "The rise of modern taxation: A new comprehensive dataset of tax introductions worldwide," The Review of International Organizations, Springer, vol. 16(1), pages 239-263, January.
    33. Ewout Frankema & Jeffrey Williamson & Pieter Woltjer, 2015. "An Economic Rationale for the African Scramble: The Commercial Transition and the Commodity Price Boom of 1845-1885," NBER Working Papers 21213, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    34. Andersson, Jens & Lazuka, Volha, 2019. "Long-term drivers of taxation in francophone West Africa 1893–2010," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 114(C), pages 294-313.
    35. Broms, Rasmus, 2017. "Colonial Revenue Extraction and Modern Day Government Quality in the British Empire," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 90(C), pages 269-280.
    36. Broadberry, Stephen & Gardner, Leigh, 2014. "African economic growth in a European mirror: a historical perspective," Economic History Working Papers 56493, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.
    37. Gardner, Leigh, 2015. "The curious incident of the franc in the Gambia: exchange rate instability and imperial monetary systems in the 1920s," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 65070, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    38. Johan Fourie & Nonso Obikili, 2019. "Decolonizing with data: The cliometric turn in African economic history," Working Papers 02/2019, Stellenbosch University, Department of Economics.
    39. Philip Roessler & Yannick I Pengi & Robert Marty & Kyle Sorlie Titlow & Nicolas Van de Walle, 2020. "The Cash Crop Revolution, Colonialism and Legacies of Spatial Inequality: Evidence from Africa," CSAE Working Paper Series 2020-12, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford.

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NEP Fields

NEP is an announcement service for new working papers, with a weekly report in each of many fields. This author has had 17 papers announced in NEP. These are the fields, ordered by number of announcements, along with their dates. If the author is listed in the directory of specialists for this field, a link is also provided.
  1. NEP-HIS: Business, Economic and Financial History (17) 2014-04-18 2014-04-18 2014-05-24 2015-05-30 2016-03-06 2019-05-20 2019-06-24 2019-09-16 2020-08-10 2020-12-21 2021-05-31 2021-07-12 2021-10-18 2022-02-28 2022-11-28 2023-03-06 2023-11-13. Author is listed
  2. NEP-GRO: Economic Growth (8) 2014-04-18 2014-05-24 2019-06-24 2019-09-16 2021-05-31 2022-02-28 2022-11-28 2023-11-13. Author is listed
  3. NEP-AFR: Africa (7) 2014-04-18 2014-04-18 2015-05-30 2019-09-16 2020-12-21 2022-11-28 2023-03-06. Author is listed
  4. NEP-EVO: Evolutionary Economics (4) 2015-05-30 2019-06-24 2020-12-21 2023-11-13
  5. NEP-MON: Monetary Economics (3) 2021-07-12 2021-10-18 2023-03-06
  6. NEP-PAY: Payment Systems and Financial Technology (3) 2021-07-12 2021-10-18 2023-03-06
  7. NEP-MAC: Macroeconomics (2) 2021-05-31 2022-02-28
  8. NEP-AGR: Agricultural Economics (1) 2015-05-30
  9. NEP-BEC: Business Economics (1) 2019-05-20
  10. NEP-CWA: Central and Western Asia (1) 2022-02-28
  11. NEP-DEV: Development (1) 2019-09-16
  12. NEP-FDG: Financial Development and Growth (1) 2023-03-06
  13. NEP-HPE: History and Philosophy of Economics (1) 2016-03-06
  14. NEP-IUE: Informal and Underground Economics (1) 2019-05-20

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