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Why is food expensive in sub-Saharan African cities?

Recent Publications

The age of Intra-African migration: shifting patterns of regional mobility between two global diasporas, 1850-1960

From the Great Divergence to South-South Divergence. New Comparative Horizons in Global Economic History

Why is food expensive in sub-Saharan African cities?

Keywords

Africa agency Asia Colonial administration Colonial economy colonial history colonial institutions colonialism colonial legacy colonial rule divergence Dominican Republic economic divergence economic growth education educational finance educational policy FDI Fiscal Policy governance Haiti Indonesia institutional theory Instit utional Theory labor market labour market living standards missions money Netherlands Indies quantitative sources real wages Returns to investment taxation trade Tropical agriculture

JEL Codes

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