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Historical Experiences and Demand for Health: The Legacy of …

WEBAs vaccines for Covid-19 become more readily available, the next challenge will be ensuring uptake of vaccines in developing countries. Despite numerous …

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The Blessings of Medicine

WEBThe Blessings of Medicine? Patient Characteristics and Health Outcomes in a Ugandan Mission Hospital, 1908-1970 No. 45/2019

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Health in African History – African Economic History Network

WEBThis chapter analyses the centrality of health within Africa's precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial history. It argues that a population’s health, the diseases from which people …

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The Blessings of Medicine

WEBUsing missions hospital patient registers we study the impact and experience of western biomedicine in colonial rural Uganda. Christian conversion was …

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Colonialism and Female Empowerment: A Two-Sided Legacy

WEBThe impact of colonialism on economic development has been a popular object of study across the social sciences. At the macro- and micro-level, scholars have …

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Legacies of Loss: The Health Outcomes of Slaveholder …

WEBHealth and wealth are positively correlated across a range of dimensions, but the causal mechanisms remain unclear. This is because health and wealth are …

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Health in African History

WEBUganda’s flagship national hospital, Mulago, received 60 percent of the health budget in 1964. Even in egalitarian Tanzania the doctor-to-patient ratio in 1967 …

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Missions, Education and Conversion in Colonial Africa

WEB6 diseases in the southern zones of sub-Saharan Africa was the major reason why early initiatives in the south were more successful than early attempts to enter the interior of …

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Poverty in Africa since Independence – African Economic …

WEBWe explain the distinction between absolute and relative poverty and show that the total number of people living under or at the poverty line in Africa has grown since …

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THE BLESSINGS OF MEDICINE

WEB4 1. Introduction From the 1920s, and especially from the 1950s, recorded mortality levels across tropical Africa fell substantially, contributing to exceptionally high rates of …

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Educational Gender Inequality in Sub‐Saharan Africa: A Long‐Term

WEBWhile sub-Saharan Africa has a poor and erratic record of economic growth over the long 20 th century, its sustained expansion of education is beyond dispute. …

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The Economics of Missionary Expansion

WEBWe estimate survival chances and find that after its introduction c. 1850 as both cure and prophylaxis, missionary mortality sharply declined. Figure 2 shows that in …

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The Influence of Colonialism on Africa’s Welfare: An …

WEBWe study height data for 47 African countries over the past two centuries and find that heights declined substantially upon colonization, by at least 1.1 cm. …

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What is Development

WEB4 look at average levels of income, but also at access to education and conditions of human health. The Human Development Index thus offers a broader …

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Colonialism and Development in Africa

WEBFor example in 1940 school enrollment was 4.9% of the relevant population in Sierra Leone, 0.6% in Angola, 3.5% in Tanzania. Elsewhere the numbers were much higher, 15.6% in …

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Chapter 13 Taxation in Africa since colonial times

WEBDownload Chapter 13 Author. Abel Gwaindepi. Abstract. This chapter focuses on taxation in Africa since 1900. Using existing data and insights from the literature, the chapter …

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Shane Doyle – African Economic History Network

WEBAEHN Textbook Chapters. Health in African History. Shane Doyle. AEHN Working Papers 2019. AEHN Working Paper #45 The Blessings of Medicine? Patient …

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Family Planning and Fertility in South Africa Under Apartheid

WEBDuring the last half of the twentieth century, the total fertility rate in South Africa declined from 6 to nearly 3 children per woman, and the national government of …

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Poverty in Africa since independence

WEB5 education and some other components of living standards since 2010. Another important dimension of poverty is how people perceive poverty in relation to the communities and …

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