To what extent were labour policies in late colonial Africa influenced by the activities of the International Labour Organisation (ILO)?...

Where Democracy and Free Markets Correlate Two years ago, we said that democracy and a market need each other. Now,...

Sub-Saharan Africa has been absent from recent histories of long-run growth owing to a lack of data from before 1950....

Why Global Warming Is Worse for Women More than men, women in middle- and low-income countries bear the burden of...

How should we understand the relationship between the concurrent decline in fertility in Kenya and the spread of financial inclusion...

Over three decades after market-oriented structural reforms, termed "Washington consensus" policies, were first implemented, we revisit the evidence on the...

Is Social Media Killing Conversation and Connection? In a world of increasingly virtual interaction, not face-to-face, it is reasonable to...

This edited volume introduces readers to the “age of intra-African migration”. In stark contrast to preceding centuries of intercontinental slave...

How did Christianity expand in sub-Saharan Africa to become the region’s dominant religion? Christian missions in the 19th and early...

Can wealth shocks have intergenerational health consequences? This paper explores the wealth-health gradient among Cape Colony slaveholders using a shortfall...