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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 improvements in health technology and access, health interventions in developing countries often fail because of low demand by the final consumers (Dupas 2011; Dupas & Miguel …
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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 linked colonial history to a variety of outcomes: economic performance (Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson 2001), public investments (Huillery 2009), education levels (Cogneau & …
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 inextricably bound up with each other, making it challenging to disentangle cause and effect.
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 population increase.3 While this broad trend is generally accepted, there remains considerable disagreement about the timing of mortality
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 associated with superior cure rates and shorter length of stay and with less frequent diagnosis of skin diseases and sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
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 suffer, and the nature of social response to illness are profoundly revealing of the core characteristics of human societies. Human wellbeing is deeply influenced
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. Possible reasons for this include forced labour, conflicts and trade integration (that came with more infectious disease) during colonialism.
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 Ghana, the likelihood of European missionaries surviving more than 3 years pre-1850 was about 40% compared to 100% for African missionaries. Post-1850 survival likelihood …
Heights and Development in a Cash-Crop Colony: Living …
WebFor submissions, please contact: Erik Green Department of Economic History Lund University P. O. Box 7083 Sweden [email protected]. 3. Heights and Development in a Cash-Crop Colony: Living Standards in Ghana, 1870-1980. Alexander Moradi, Gareth Austin, Jörg Baten.
Poverty in Africa since Independence – African Economic History …
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 independence, while the share of poor has declined since the mid-1990s. We also discuss how rapid urbanization is shifting the poverty problem from a predominantly rural to a
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 South Africa established thousands of stationary and mobile family planning clinics, sent family planning advisers door-to-door, and offered free contraception.
Writing History Backwards or Sideways: Towards a Consensus …
Web3 work on baptismal records from missionaries in the kingdom of Kongo.5 The colonial censuses are in turn widely discredited, and therefore not used as authoritative benchmarks,6 and while the population in post-colonial states Africa is better recorded, census taking has remained uneven,
African Demographics: How many people are too many people
Web6 Phase 1: All societies have started out with both high levels of mortality, primarily child mortality, and high levels of fertility together resulting in slow population increase. These societies are characterised as agricultural, low productive and pre-modern, where family labour is required for
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 Zambia and 47.1% in Malawi. Like income per-capita, school enrollment improved from very low levels. The situation with literacy is similar.
Poverty in Africa since independence
WebThese aspects remain beyond the scope of this chapter. Further, this chapter focuses on poverty in Africa since independence. We begin in the 1960s, a decade that marks African independence and the beginning of annual poverty data provided by the World Bank. We explore the data up to 2016, which is the most recent year for which the World Bank
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