Commerce and Economic Change in West Africa
Author: Martin Lynn
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002-05-02
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780521893268
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From Slave Trade to 'Legitimate' Commerce
Author: Robin Law
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002-08-08
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780521523066
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis edited collection, written by eleven leading specialists, examines the nineteenth-century commercial transition in West Africa: the ending of the Atlantic slave trade and the development of alternative forms of 'legitimate' trade, mainly in vegetable products. Approaching the subject from an African, rather than a European or American, perspective, the case studies consider the effects of transition on the African societies involved. They offer significant insights into the history of pre-colonial Africa and the slave trade, the origins of European imperialism, and longer-term issues of economic development in Africa.
Commercial Transitions and Abolition in West Africa 1630–1860
Author: Angus E. Dalrymple-Smith
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019-12-09
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9004417125
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCommercial Transitions and Abolition in West Africa 1630–1860 offers a fresh perspective on why, in the nineteenth century, the most important West African states and merchants who traded with Atlantic markets became exporters of commodities, instead of exporters of slaves. This study takes a long-term comparative approach and makes of use of new quantitative data. It argues that the timing and nature of the change from slave exports to so-called ‘legitimate commerce’ in the Gold Coast, the Bight of Biafra and the Bight of Benin, can be predicted by patterns of trade established in previous centuries by a range of African and European actors responding to the changing political and economic environments of the Atlantic world.
Indian Cotton Textiles in West Africa
Author: Kazuo Kobayashi
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2019-06-10
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 303018675X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book focuses on the significant role of West African consumers in the development of the global economy. It explores their demand for Indian cotton textiles and how their consumption shaped patterns of global trade, influencing economies and businesses from Western Europe to South Asia. In turn, the book examines how cotton textile production in southern India responded to this demand. Through this perspective of a south-south economic history, the study foregrounds African agency and considers the lasting impact on production and exports in South Asia. It also considers how European commercial and imperial expansion provided a complex web of networks, linking West African consumers and Indian weavers. Crucially, it demonstrates the emergence of the modern global economy.
Morality and Economic Growth in Rural West Africa
Author: Paul Clough
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2014-06-01
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13: 1782382712
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe land, labor, credit, and trading institutions of Marmara village, in Hausaland, northern Nigeria, are detailed in this study through fieldwork conducted in two national economic cycles - the petroleum-boom prosperity (in 1977-1979), and the macro-economic decline (in 1985, 1996 and 1998). The book unveils a new paradigm of economic change in the West African savannah, demonstrating how rural accumulation in a polygynous society actually limits the extent of inequality while at the same time promoting technical change. A uniquely African non-capitalist trajectory of accumulation subordinates the acquisition of capital to the expansion of polygynous families, clientage networks, and circles of trading friends. The whole trajectory is driven by an indigenous ethics of personal responsibility. This model disputes the validity of both Marxian theories of capitalist transformation in Africa and the New Institutional Economics.
The Institutional Transformation of the Economic Community of West African States
Author: Kofi Oteng Kufuor
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-03-02
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1351887629
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines regional economic integration in West Africa within the context of the institutional evolution of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). It uses the tools of the New Institutional Economics School (NIE) to explore the origins and development of the most recent ECOWAS Treaty. Particular attention is given to the interface between domestic legal arrangements and the success of open markets at the regional and international levels.
The Development of Indigenous Trade and Markets in West Africa
Author: Claude Meillassoux
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-09-03
Total Pages: 331
ISBN-13: 0429946279
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published in 1971 and written in English and French, with summaries in both languages, the essays in this volume dsicuss the effects of internal economic and political conditions and of external relations on the development of trade and markets in West Africa from the period of the slave trade to the growth in the 20th century in production for overseas markets and rapidly expanding urban centres. Other essays discuss various aspects of local and regional trade and markets from the nineteenth century onwards.
Regional Integration in West Africa
Author: Eswar Prasad
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: 2021-07-13
Total Pages: 203
ISBN-13: 0815738544
DOWNLOAD EBOOK" Assessing the potential benefits and risks of a currency union Leaders of the fifteen-member Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) have set a goal of achieving a monetary and currency union by late 2020. Although some progress has been made toward achieving this ambitious goal, major challenges remain if the region is to realize the necessary macroeconomic convergence and establish the required institutional framework in a relatively short period of time. The proposed union offers many potential benefits, especially for countries with historically high inflation rates and weak central banks. But, as implementation of the euro over the past two decades has shown, folding multiple currencies, representing disparate economies, into a common union comes with significant costs, along with operational challenges and transitional risks. All these potential negatives must be considered carefully by ECOWAS leaders seeking tomeet a self-imposed deadline. This book, by two leading experts on economics and Africa, makes a significant analytical contribution to the debates now under way about how ECOWAS could achieve and manage its currency union, andthe ramifications for the African continent. "
Africa’s Development Dynamics 2021 Digital Transformation for Quality Jobs
Author: African Union Commission
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2021-01-19
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 926460653X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfrica’s Development Dynamics uses lessons learned in the continent’s five regions – Central, East, North, Southern and West Africa – to develop policy recommendations and share good practices. Drawing on the most recent statistics, this analysis of development dynamics attempts to help African leaders reach the targets of the African Union’s Agenda 2063 at all levels: continental, regional, national and local.
Economic Change in Precolonial Africa
Author: Philip D. Curtin
Publisher: [Madison] : University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13:
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