AEHW2015 Programme
Is Africa Growing out of Poverty? Africa’s Economic Transition in Historical Perspective
30-31 October, 2015
Venue: Impulse, Stippeneng 2
Wageningen University Campus
Building no. 115 (Futurum)
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Session 1: Key notes on Africa’s ‘Green Revolution’
Friday, 30 October - 9.10-11.00
- Gareth Austin (Graduate Institute Geneva) - Historical perspectives on a possible African Green Revolution: land-extensiveness and intensification in African economic history
- Ken Giller (Wageningen University) - How small is beautiful?
Session 2: Parallel sessions - Friday, 30/10 11.30-12.50
Session 2A: Bureaucratic capacity and corruption
- Valentin Seidler (Princeton) and Claudia Williamson (Mississippi) -
Bureaucratic capacity and the success of institutional transplants - Hanaan Marwah (LSE) and Aaron Graham (Oxford) - African ‘corruption’ in comparative historical perspective: Institutional arrangements for government contracts in post-colonial Africa and pre-modern Europe
Session 2B: Money, credit and debt in East and South Africa
- Karin Pallaver (Bologna) - The great shilling swindle: The circulation of money and the East African Rupee crises in Kenya and Uganda (1905-1923) (205,71 kb)
- Johan Fourie (Stellenbosch) and Christie Swanepoel (Stellenbosch) - Does secure property rights cause debt? Evidence from colonial South Africa (595,07 kb)
Session 2C: Fiscal policies and public finance
- Leigh Gardner (LSE) - ‘Vague expectations and sentimental considerations’: Lending to Africa under colonial rule, 1880-1938
Session 3: Parallel sessions - Friday, 30/10 14.00-16.00
Session 3A: Agriculture, land rights and economic development
- Alexa Tiemann (St. Gallen) - Customary land rights and contemporary development in Africa
- Henry Kam Kah (Buea, Cameroon) - 2G Agriculture, Food Sustainability and Poverty Reduction in Cameroon
Session 3B: Colonial taxation
- Thilo Albers (LSE) and Marvin Suesse (Humboldt Berlin) - Colonial taxation and post-colonial development in Africa. A hypothesis and test (240,47 kb)
- Bas de Roo (Ghent) - Negotiating colonial tariff policies: customs and commerce in the Congo (1886-1914) (1,45 mb)
- Jens Andersson (Lund) - Persistence and change in fiscal capacity in francophone West Africa, 1860-2010 (707,5 kb)
Session 3C: Living standards in Uganda and Nigeria
- Shane Doyle (Leeds) - The impact of educational, medical and income inequalities on health and longevity in historical perspective: the case of Uganda c.1920-1985
Session 4: Parallel sessions - Friday, 30/10 16.30-18.30
Session 4A: Economic growth and income distribution
- Morten Jerven (Simon Fraser) - African Poverty by Numbers: A historical perspective on evidence, definitions and narratives (43,82 kb)
- Evert Los (Wageningen) and Cornelis Gardebroek (Wageningen) - Unravelling the links between agriculture and economic growth: A panel time series approach for post-WWII Africa (974,2 kb)
- Mark Nyadoro (Harare) and Tinotenda Dube (Harare) - Poverty and income distribution in Sub-Saharan Africa (331,18 kb)
Session 4B: Labour and taxation in Portuguese Africa
- Kleoniki Alexopoulou (Wageningen) and Dacil Juif (Wageningen) - Colonial origins of the threefold reality of Mozambique: fiscal capacity and labour systems (529,7 kb)
- Felipa Ribeiro da Silva (IISH Amsterdam) - Women and labour in Sub-Saharan African economy, 1800-2000: the case of Mozambique (2,68 mb)
- Pedro Goulart (Lisbon) - Child labour in Africa’s colonial system: the case of Portugal’s colonies, 1870-1973 (390,37 kb)
Session 4C: Ethnicity, mobility and development
- Oliver Vanden Eynde (PSE), Patrick M Kuhn (Durham) and Alexander Moradi (Sussex) - Ethnicity and Job Performance in the Kenyan Police (1940-1970) (1,01 mb)
- Jean-Louis Arcand (Graduate Institute Geneva) and Dany Jaimovich (Goethe University Frankfurt) - Does ethnic diversity decrease economic interactions? Evidence from exchange networks in rural Gambia (618,08 kb)
- Amin George Forji (Helsinki) - Political Sovereignty, Political Elites and the Crisis of Economic Development in Postcolonial Africa
Session 5: Parallel sessions - Saturday, 31/10 9.00-11.00
Session 5A: Settler farming in East and Southern Africa
- Jutta Bolt (Groningen), Erik Green (Lund) and Ushe Kufakunirari (Harare) - What is beautiful? The inverse relationship between farm size and productivity in maize farming in Southern Rhodesia 1900-1965 (242,08 kb)
- Ewout Frankema (Wageningen), Erik Green (Lund) and Ellen Hillbom (Lund) - Endogenous processes of colonial settlement: The success and failure of European settler farming in Sub-Saharan Africa (677,99 kb)
- Maria Fibaeck (Lund) - Coffee production in Kenya 1940 to 1963: Did the settler farms gain from increased competition? (175,52 kb)
Session 5B: Labour markets and structural change
- Jeanne Cilliers (Stellenbosch) - Farms to factories? Structural change and occupational mobility before and after industrial take-off: a micro-level case study of 19th century settler South Africa (989,73 kb)
- Rebecca Simson (LSE) - Patronage or Meritocracy?: Public Sector Employment in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda since Independence (902,55 kb)
Session 5C: West African slave and commodity trades
- Angus Dalrymple-Smith (Wageningen) and Pieter Woltjer (Wageningen) - Commodities, prices and risk: A study of merchant decision making in the British transatlantic slave trade 1740 - 1808 (52,29 kb)
- Federico Tadei (Bocconi) - Colonial trade and extractive institutions in British and French Africa (432,36 kb)
- Cyrelene Amoah-Boampong (University of Ghana) - Contesting the State in Ghana’s Cocoa Trade (66,62 kb)
Session 6: Parallel sessions - Saturday, 31/10 11.30-12.50
Session 6A: Demography and deindustrialization
- Ushe Kufakurinani (Harare) - A Sinking Ship? Zimbabwe’s Pathway to De-industrialisation 2000 to 2015 (203,45 kb)
- Frans Huijzendveld (Wageningen) - Western science and household strategies in the light of a long predicted Malthusian crisis in the West-Usambara highlands of Tanzania, 1900-2014 (589,62 kb)
Session 6B: Service provision in the copper mines
- Iva Pesa (ASC Leiden) - Service Provision on the Zambian Copperbelt from an Economic Perspective. The Disjuncture between Economic Growth, Housing, Water and Energy Provision, 1940-2015 (396,64 kb)
- Dacil Juif (Wageningen) and Ewout Frankema (Wageningen) - From Coercion to Compensation: Comparative Living Standards of Copper Mine Workers in the Belgian Congo and Northern Rhodesia, c. 1910-1970 (17,21 kb)
Session 6C: Pre-colonial state formation
Session 7: Parallel sessions - Saturday, 31/10 14.00-16.00
Session 7A: Disease, commerce and agriculture
- Klass Rönnbäck (Gothenburg) - Working in the ‘White Man’s Grave’ - Compensating Wage Differentials and Epidemiological Risk on the 18th century Gold Coast (313,79 kb)
- Angus Dalrymple-Smith (Wageningen) and Ewout Frankema (Wageningen) - Slave ship provisioning in the long 18th century. A boost to West African commercial agriculture? (867,26 kb)
Session 7B: Climate, conflict and violence
- Chibuike Uche (ASC Leiden) - “They milked the cow but did not feed it to grow fat": Idi Amin, British government and the expulsion of Asians from Uganda
Session 7C: Missions, demography and gender
- Johannes Norling (Michigan) - A New Framework for Measuring Heterogeneity in Childbearing Strategies When Parents Want Sons and Daughters (1,36 mb)
- Shane Doyle (Leeds), Felix Meier zu Selhausen (Sussex, Southern Denmark, MMU Uganda) and Jacob Weisdorf (Southern Denmark, CEPR) - Religion, numeracy and disease: lessons from Ugandan missionary hospital patient registry, 1908-1970 (149,95 kb)
- Alexander Moradi (Sussex) and Felix Meier zu Selhausen (Sussex, Southern Denmark, MMU Uganda) - Strategies of Christian growth: Evidence from locational choice in Ghana 1846-1938
Session 8: Closing address
Saturday, 31 October 16.15-17.15
- Leonard Wantchekon (Princeton University) - Cultural Dividends in Economic Development: Evidence from Post-Colonial Africa