Transportation Technology and Economic Change: The Impact of Colonial Railroads on City Growth in Africa
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- Remi Jedwab & Alexander Moradi, 2013. "Transportation Technology and Economic Change: The Impact of Colonial Railroads on City Growth in Africa," CSAE Working Paper Series 2013-17, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford.
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- O1 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development
- O3 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights
- O18 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure
- R4 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Transportation Economics
- R1 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics
- N97 - Economic History - - Regional and Urban History - - - Africa; Oceania
- NEP-AFR-2014-02-21 (Africa)
- NEP-GEO-2014-02-21 (Economic Geography)
- NEP-GRO-2014-02-21 (Economic Growth)
- NEP-HIS-2014-02-21 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
- NEP-TRE-2014-02-21 (Transport Economics)
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