An Economic Rationale for the African Scramble: The Commercial Transition and the Commodity Price Boom of 1845-1885
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- O40 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - General
- O55 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Africa
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