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      • January 2025
      • Teaching Note

      South Africa: Growth and Inequality

      By: Marco Tabellini, Marlous van Waijenburg and Maisie Wiltshire-Gordon
      Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 724-038. View Details
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      Tabellini, Marco, Marlous van Waijenburg, and Maisie Wiltshire-Gordon. "South Africa: Growth and Inequality." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 725-023, January 2025.
      • March 2024 (Revised February 2025)
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      South Africa: Growth and Inequality

      By: Marco Tabellini and Marlous van Waijenburg
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      Tabellini, Marco, and Marlous van Waijenburg. "South Africa: Growth and Inequality." Harvard Business School Case 724-038, March 2024. (Revised February 2025.)
      • January 2024
      • Teaching Note

      Nigeria: Africa's Giant

      By: Marlous van Waijenburg
      Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 723-056. View Details
      Keywords: Africa; Nigeria
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      van Waijenburg, Marlous. "Nigeria: Africa's Giant." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 724-017, January 2024.
      • Summer 2023
      • Article

      (Un)principled Agents: Monitoring Loyalty after the End of the Royal African Company Monopoly

      By: Anne Ruderman and Marlous van Waijenburg
      The revocation of the Royal African Company's monopoly in 1698 inaugurated a transformation of the transatlantic slave trade. While the RAC’s exit from the slave trade has received scholarly attention, little is known about the company’s response to the loss of its... View Details
      Keywords: Slavery; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business History; Monopoly; History; Business and Government Relations
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      Ruderman, Anne, and Marlous van Waijenburg. "(Un)principled Agents: Monitoring Loyalty after the End of the Royal African Company Monopoly." Special Issue on Business, Capitalism, and Slavery edited by Marlous van Waijenburg and Anne Ruderman. Business History Review 97, no. 2 (Summer 2023): 247–281.
      • August 2023
      • Article

      What About the Race Between Technology and Education in the Global South? Comparing Skill-premiums in Colonial Africa and Asia

      By: Ewout Frankema and Marlous van Waijenburg
      Historical research on the race between education and technology has focused on the West but barely touched upon ‘the rest’. A new occupational wage database for 50 African and Asian economies allows us to compare long-run patterns in skill premiums across the colonial... View Details
      Keywords: Skill Premium; Human Capital; Wages; History; Education; Africa; Asia
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      Frankema, Ewout, and Marlous van Waijenburg. "What About the Race Between Technology and Education in the Global South? Comparing Skill-premiums in Colonial Africa and Asia." Economic History Review 76, no. 3 (August 2023): 941–978.
      • March 2023 (Revised January 2024)
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      Nigeria: Africa's Giant

      By: Marlous van Waijenburg
      "Nigeria: Africa’s Giant" delves into the economic development and state building record of Africa’s most populous country. Despite being one of the continent’s largest oil-exporters, Nigeria’s economy has been struggling, and poverty is widespread. The country’s... View Details
      Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Developing Countries and Economies; Government Administration; Poverty; Africa; Nigeria
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      van Waijenburg, Marlous. "Nigeria: Africa's Giant." Harvard Business School Case 723-056, March 2023. (Revised January 2024.)
      • 2023
      • Article

      Bridging the Gap with the ‘New’ Economic History of Africa

      By: Ewout Frankema and Marlous van Waijenburg
      This review article seeks to build bridges between mainstream African history and the more historically oriented branch of the ‘new’ economic history of Africa. We survey four central topics of the new economic history of Africa—growth, trade, labor, and inequality—and... View Details
      Keywords: Economic Growth; Trade; Labor; Equality and Inequality; Development Economics; History; Africa
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      Frankema, Ewout, and Marlous van Waijenburg. "Bridging the Gap with the ‘New’ Economic History of Africa." Journal of African History 64, no. 1 (2023): 38–61.
      • January 2023
      • Article

      Inequality Regimes in Sub-Saharan Africa from Precolonial Times to the Present

      By: Ewout Frankema, Michiel de Haas and Marlous van Waijenburg
      While current levels of economic inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa receive ample attention from academics and policymakers, we know little about the long-run evolution of inequality in the region. Even the new and influential ‘global inequality literature’ that is... View Details
      Keywords: Economic Inequalty; Equality and Inequality; History; Africa
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      Frankema, Ewout, Michiel de Haas, and Marlous van Waijenburg. "Inequality Regimes in Sub-Saharan Africa from Precolonial Times to the Present." African Affairs 122, no. 486 (January 2023): 57–94.
      • 2022
      • Chapter

      Fiscal Development under Colonial and Sovereign Rule

      By: Ewout Frankema and Marlous van Waijenburg
      This chapter explores differences in the making of a ‘modern’ fiscal state under colonial and sovereign rule. Focusing on African and Asian colonies (1820–1970) and their respective European metropoles, it argues that while the introduction of ‘modern’... View Details
      Keywords: Fiscal Modernization; Colonial Rule; Economic History; Sovereign Finance; History; Taxation; Africa; Asia
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      Frankema, Ewout, and Marlous van Waijenburg. "Fiscal Development under Colonial and Sovereign Rule." In Global Taxation: How Modern Taxes Conquered the World, edited by Philipp Genschel and Laura Seelkopf, 67–98. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
      • 2019
      • Chapter

      From Coast to Hinterland: Fiscal State Formation in British and French West Africa, c. 1880–1960

      By: Ewout Frankema and Marlous van Waijenburg
      This chapter contrasts and compares the ways different colonial states in West Africa developed local fiscal capacity. We show that per capita revenues were higher in the more commercialised coastal export economies than in remote parts of the interior. We argue that... View Details
      Keywords: Fiscal Capacity; Public Debt; French West Africa; British West Africa; Geography; History; Africa
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      Frankema, Ewout, and Marlous van Waijenburg. "From Coast to Hinterland: Fiscal State Formation in British and French West Africa, c. 1880–1960." In Fiscal Capacity and the Colonial State in Africa and Asia, c. 1850–1960, edited by Ewout Frankema and Anne Booth, 161–192. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
      • October 2018
      • Article

      Africa Rising? A Historical Perspective

      By: Ewout Frankema and Marlous van Waijenburg
      Sub-Saharan Africa’s recent economic boom has raised hopes and expectations to lift the regions’ ‘bottom millions’ out of poverty by 2030. How realistic is that goal? We approach this question by comparing the experiences of three front-runners of region-specific... View Details
      Keywords: Economic Growth; Economy; Transformation; Poverty; History; Africa
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      Frankema, Ewout, and Marlous van Waijenburg. "Africa Rising? A Historical Perspective." African Affairs 117, no. 469 (October 2018): 543–568. (Finalist for the bi-annual Stephen Ellis Prize for the most innovative article in African Affairs.)
      • March 2018
      • Article

      Financing the African Colonial State: The Revenue Imperative and Forced Labor

      By: Marlous van Waijenburg
      Although recent studies on African colonial tax systems have deepened our understanding of early fiscal capacity building efforts in the region, they have largely ignored the contributions from a widely used but invisible source of state revenue: that of labor... View Details
      Keywords: Colonial Institutions; Labor Coercion; Taxation; Africa
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      van Waijenburg, Marlous. "Financing the African Colonial State: The Revenue Imperative and Forced Labor." Journal of Economic History 78, no. 1 (March 2018): 40–80.
      • September 2014
      • Article

      Metropolitan Blueprints of Colonial Taxation? Lessons from Fiscal Capacity Building in British and French Africa, 1880-1940

      By: Ewout Frankema and Marlous van Waijenburg
      The historical and social science literature is divided about the importance of metropolitan blueprints of colonial rule for the development of colonial states. We exploit historical records of colonial state finances to explore the importance of metropolitan identity... View Details
      Keywords: Colonial Administration; Quantitative Sources; Governance; Money; Taxation; Trade; History; Africa
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      Frankema, Ewout, and Marlous van Waijenburg. "Metropolitan Blueprints of Colonial Taxation? Lessons from Fiscal Capacity Building in British and French Africa, 1880-1940." Journal of African History 55, no. 3 (September 2014): 371–400.
      • December 2012
      • Article

      Structural Impediments to African Growth? New Evidence from Real Wages in British Africa, 1880–1965

      By: Ewout Frankema and Marlous van Waijenburg
      Recent literature on the historical determinants of African poverty has emphasized structural impediments to African growth, such as adverse geographical conditions, weak institutions, or ethnic heterogeneity. But has African poverty been a persistent historical... View Details
      Keywords: Living Standards; Real Wages; Labor Market; Colonial Institutions; Economic Growth; Wages; History; Africa
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      Frankema, Ewout, and Marlous van Waijenburg. "Structural Impediments to African Growth? New Evidence from Real Wages in British Africa, 1880–1965." Journal of Economic History 72, no. 4 (December 2012): 895–926. (Awarded Economic History Association's Arthur Cole Prize for best article published in The Journal of Economic History in 2012.)
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      By: Marlous van Waijenburg

      Professor van Waijenburg’s research focuses on the historical roots of relative African poverty and state fragility. Where sufficiently reliable and comparable records exist, she creates new datasets from a range of qualitative and quantitative archival sources. The... View Details

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