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Research Brief
A colonial legacy?: Income inequality in former British African colonies

The presence of European colonial powers in Africa has left a long-lasting legacy that has severely impacted their development trajectories...

Colonies Economic development Equality and inequality
Working Paper
Changing Income Inequality and Structural Transformation: The Case of Botswana 1921-2010

In Sub-Saharan Africa we find some of the highest levels of income inequality in the world. Nevertheless, we generally know very little about the historical development of inequality...

Colonies Equality and inequality Income distribution
Working Paper
Dar es Salaam as a 'Harbour of Peace' in East Africa: Tracing the Role of Creolized Urban Ethnicity in Nation-State Formation

Dar es Salaam is exceptional in East Africa for having a record of relatively little ethnic tension, and remaining tranquil and true to its name, the ‘harbour of peace’...

Colonies Decolonization Social conflict
Book Chapter
Dar es Salaam as a 'Harbour of Peace' in East Africa: Tracing the Role of Creolized Urban Ethnicity in Nation-State Formation

From the book: Urbanization and Development

Colonies Decolonization Social conflict
Annual Lecture
Developing Countries in the World Economy: The Future in the Past?

This lecture examines recent changes in the significance of developing countries in the world economy from a longer term historical perspective...

Colonies International relations
Book Chapter
Introduction: Rationality and the World

From the book: Decolonizing Knowledge

Colonies Imperialism Theory of Knowledge
Book Chapter
Development for ’Big Fish’ and ’Small Fish’?: A Study of Contrasts in Tanzania’s Fishing Sector

From the book: Decolonizing Knowledge

Colonies Imperialism Theory of Knowledge
Book Chapter
The Economic Consequences of Pragmatism: A Re-interpretation of Keynesian Doctrine

From the book: Decolonizing Knowledge

Colonies Imperialism Theory of Knowledge
Book Chapter
Two Phases of American Environmentalism: A Critical History

From the book: Decolonizing Knowledge

Colonies Imperialism Theory of Knowledge
Book Chapter
Rationality, the Body, and the World: From Production to Regeneration

From the book: Decolonizing Knowledge

Colonies Imperialism Theory of Knowledge
Book Chapter
Farmers, Seedsmen, and Scientists: Systems of Agriculture and Systems of Knowledge

From the book: Decolonizing Knowledge

Colonies Imperialism Theory of Knowledge
Book Chapter
Why Haldane Went to India: Modern Genetics in Quest of Tradition

From the book: Decolonizing Knowledge

Colonies Imperialism Theory of Knowledge
Book Chapter
Footnotes to Vavilov: An Essay on Gene Diversity

From the book: Decolonizing Knowledge

Colonies Imperialism Theory of Knowledge
Book Chapter
The Savage Freud: The First Non-Western Psychoanalyst and the Politics of Secret Selves in Colonial India

From the book: Decolonizing Knowledge

Colonies Imperialism Theory of Knowledge
Book Chapter
Hosting the Otherness of the Other: The Case of the Green Revolution

From the book: Decolonizing Knowledge

Colonies Imperialism Theory of Knowledge
Book
Decolonizing Knowledge: From Development to Dialogue

Development failures, environmental degradation and social fragmentation can no longer be regarded as side effects of `externalities'...

Colonies Imperialism Theory of Knowledge
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