Economic History of Developing Regions最新文献

{"title":"Colonial agricultural estates and rural development in twentieth-century Mexico","authors":"Luz Marina Arias, Diana Flores-Peregrina","doi":"10.1080/20780389.2023.2260953","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20780389.2023.2260953","url":null,"abstract":"This study documents that municipalities in central Mexico closer in the past to an agricultural estate (hacienda) are associated with higher literacy and lower poverty throughout the twentieth cen...","PeriodicalId":54115,"journal":{"name":"Economic History of Developing Regions","volume":"75 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139518450","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mild Arabica coffee trade at a time of market regulation","authors":"Andrea Montero-Mora, Marc Badia-Miró","doi":"10.1080/20780389.2023.2254496","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20780389.2023.2254496","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThis paper explores the dynamics of mild coffee trade during the term of the International Coffee Agreement, focusing on Costa Rica as a case study. We aimed to verify the influence of the agreement on coffee exports and understand its impact on the exports of high-quality coffee. To compare the influence of the coffee agreement on the trade performance of high-quality coffee producers with that of producers specializing in coffee of similar – or lower – quality, we also included exports of Brazilian coffee (low quality) and Colombian coffee (high quality) in the sample. We focused on analysing commodity trade agreements in the second half of the twentieth century and, simultaneously, on the drivers of coffee exports based on a gravity equation consistent with international trade models. Our findings allowed us to conclude that the International Coffee Agreement gave rise to few benefits for ‘Other Milds’ countries such as Costa Rica and greater benefits for ‘Colombian Milds’ countries such as Colombia, at least in its early versions.KEYWORDS: International Coffee Agreement (ICoA)commodities agreementscoffee marketcoffee trademarket regulationgravity equationJEL CODES: F13024Q 17Q18 AcknowledgementsAndrea Montero-Mora thanks the University of Costa Rica for the scholarship awarded between 2014 and 2018 to develop the doctoral. The authors thank the anonymous referees for their constructive contributions that significantly improved this paper.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.Notes1 Following Lawless (Citation1995) and Cardello (Citation1995), we agree that quality is a multidimensional field of analysis that encompasses objective and subjective components and has a spatial and temporal framework. The concept refers to the degree of excellence of a specific product and the absence of defects covering sensory and other hidden aspects. The sensory characteristics (shape, texture, appearance, colour, and smell) are easily perceived by the senses, while the hidden ones (chemical composition) require measuring instruments and concern safety and nutrition (Shewfelt Citation1999). Quality can also be measured through other dimensions, such as the nutritional composition, the ease of preparation, the density of the product, or the reputation of the brands or origins, among other aspects (Lawless Citation1995). In addition, for each of the actors involved in the production and marketing of a product chain, quality can have different meanings or connotations. Producers usually define it in sensory and hidden information terms, while consumers provide their perception of their satisfaction, thus showing a less tangible and less quantifiable aspect (Shewfelt Citation1999; Samper Citation2002, Citation2003; Viales and Montero Citation2015).2 In specification (2) we do not consider pair interactions allowing us to introduce distance and other control variables associated with geography in the regression re","PeriodicalId":54115,"journal":{"name":"Economic History of Developing Regions","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136308015","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The sins of the church: The long-term impacts of Christian missionary praxis on HIV and sexual behaviour in Zambia","authors":"Michael Chanda Chiseni","doi":"10.1080/20780389.2023.2243036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20780389.2023.2243036","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines the long-term effect of Christian missionary exposure on HIV infection and related sexual behaviour in Zambia. I use distance to a historical missionary church and health facility as proxies for missionary exposure. I constructed a geocoded data set combining information on the historical locations of churches and missionary health centres with contemporary individual-level data. I find that individuals who live close to a historical missionary church have a higher likelihood of being infected with HIV. I find no significant effect of proximity to a missionary health centre on HIV. Considering that heterosexual transmission is the main channel of HIV transmission in Zambia, I analyse the effect of missionary exposure on sexual behaviour. The following patterns emerge: individuals who live close to a Protestant church are less likely to engage in premarital sexual abstinence; they also have their first sexual encounter at an earlier age, with the effect being stronger for men than women. Living near a Catholic church is associated with having a higher number of sexual partners.","PeriodicalId":54115,"journal":{"name":"Economic History of Developing Regions","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135436435","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Profits and inequality during an export boom. Evidence from tax records in Lima, Peru","authors":"Luis Felipe Zegarra","doi":"10.1080/20780389.2023.2245974","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20780389.2023.2245974","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54115,"journal":{"name":"Economic History of Developing Regions","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45692584","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Like the swing of the pendulum: The history of government-sponsored rural settlements in São Paulo, Brazil (1820s–1920s)","authors":"Bruno Gabriel Witzel de Souza","doi":"10.1080/20780389.2023.2243035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20780389.2023.2243035","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThis paper studies the history of government-sponsored rural settlements in the province/state of São Paulo, Brazil, as a pendular movement, whose points of reversion depended on the interests of a landowning elite to obtain labour for newly expanding plantations from the 1820s to the 1920s. Faltering infrastructure and ill-defined property rights over public lands were persistent constraints to the development of such rural settlements. Part of this failure can be attributed to a lack of State capacity and part to the opposition of plantation owners to the settling of independent smallholdings. The paper complements this historical-institutional analysis with a quantitative description of such settlements in 1898–1920. These late government-sponsored rural settlements showed the potential to grow in demographic and economic terms and had an overall demographic and occupational composition well aligned with the goal of creating a family-based peasantry. However, there were enormous heterogeneities in ethno-linguistic composition, educational attainment, and economic prosperity between and within such rural settlements, which point to idiosyncratic features that should be taken into account in future research assessing the short- and long-run effects of immigration and settlement policies in Brazil.KEYWORDS: Rural settlement (Núcleo colonialColônia)plantationcoffeeimmigrationBrazil AcknowledgmentsI thank Stephan Klasen (in memoriam), Erika Anderson, Renato Colistete, André Lanza, José Meléndez, Miqueias Mügge, and William Summerhill for discussing various aspects of this paper. Maria Lúcia Lamounier gave me a much required intellectual incentive to keep working on it. I also benefited from comments received at the XVIII World Economic History Congress and the 3rd German Social and Economic History Congress. Comments by three anonymous referees and Editor Alfonso Herranz-Loncán greatly improved the original manuscript. The usual disclaimers apply and the author is solely responsible for the content of this paper.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.DisclaimerThe first draft of this paper was completed during a postdoctoral research period at the Institute for Economic & Social History at the University of Göttingen.Correction StatementThis article has been corrected with minor changes. These changes do not impact the academic content of the article.Notes1 European immigrants were generally the focus of such settlement policies, partly but not exclusively due to the racist intent of ‘whitening’ Brazil. Nonetheless, as early as the 1810s, Magistrate Antonio Rodrigues Velloso de Oliveira, born in São Paulo, envisaged resettling free Brazilians in sparsely populated regions (Velloso de Oliveira Citation1868 [Citation1810], 35–36, 74–75, 87–88; Citation1873 [Citation1814], 112–13). Plans to conquer and settle the indigenous population within the Brazilian territory were also frequent at the time, as di","PeriodicalId":54115,"journal":{"name":"Economic History of Developing Regions","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134969433","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Child labour, Africa’s colonial system, and coercion: The case of the Portuguese colonies, 1870–1975","authors":"Pedro Goulart","doi":"10.1080/20780389.2023.2243034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20780389.2023.2243034","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54115,"journal":{"name":"Economic History of Developing Regions","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44235952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The colonial gap: An analysis of income distribution in the Port of Dakar, 1911–1940","authors":"Daniel Castillo Hidalgo","doi":"10.1080/20780389.2023.2220076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20780389.2023.2220076","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54115,"journal":{"name":"Economic History of Developing Regions","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44961365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The economic response of the Israeli government to a rapid influx of immigrants by the founding of the state, 1948–1953: Expansionary fiscal policy and rationing","authors":"Andrew Schein","doi":"10.1080/20780389.2023.2220075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20780389.2023.2220075","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54115,"journal":{"name":"Economic History of Developing Regions","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41413087","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The emergence of Brazil as a major world sugar and ethanol producer","authors":"H. Klein, F. Luna","doi":"10.1080/20780389.2023.2213400","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20780389.2023.2213400","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The production and export of sugar defined the colonial history of Brazil. It was here that the first modern slave based plantation system was created in America. Up through the end of the 17th century it was the dominant Atlantic producer of sugar. Although production continued to grow it was replaced in world markets in the 18th century by West Indian growers and was late to modernize in the 19th and early 20th century. Yet today it is once again the world's dominant producer of sugar and the second largest producer of ethanol. How and why these changes occurred is the theme of this essay in which we explore the rise of the modern sugar and ethanol industries in Brazil.","PeriodicalId":54115,"journal":{"name":"Economic History of Developing Regions","volume":"38 1","pages":"256 - 280"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42189277","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The development of colonial health care provision in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire: ca. 1900–55","authors":"Arlinde C.E. Vrooman","doi":"10.1080/20780389.2023.2209284","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20780389.2023.2209284","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Colonial administrations introduced various social infrastructures in Africa. This paper analyses and compares the development of colonial governments' health care provision and policies in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire from circa 1900 to 1955. Using qualitative and quantitative information from colonial reports, a new dataset captures the development of four factors relevant to these aims: health care expenditures, health care facilities, medical staff, and patients. Deflated health care expenditures per capita were found to be higher in Ghana than in Côte d’Ivoire in almost all years. The number of health care facilities per capita was larger in Côte d’Ivoire than in Ghana, and facilities were more geographically dispersed. Ghana had a lower number of medical staff per capita than Côte d’Ivoire as of the 1920s. Medical staff from Côte d’Ivoire formed the majority of the staff base as early as the mid-1910s. Finally, the analysis shows that the number of patients treated in health care facilities in Ghana was low until the 1920s, and took off as more facilities became available during the 1940s. These findings provide evidence that even two countries that are relatively similar (apart from their colonial history) can have different colonial health care trajectories.","PeriodicalId":54115,"journal":{"name":"Economic History of Developing Regions","volume":"38 1","pages":"215 - 255"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46140276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}