This paper contributes to the debate on land inequality and human capital formation by assessing Panama's case in the twentieth century. Extensive literature suggests that land inequality is associ...

Zambia has throughout most of its colonial and post-colonial history been dependent on income from copper exports. In the colonial era, however, royalty charges on copper production went to the Bri...

This article develops the concept of a natural resources trap to explain why resource-rich, middle-income economies diverge under global integration. Focusing on Latin America, it argues that commo...

Submit research on colonial capital, firms, and labour systems. Explore how colonial economies distributed gains and costs across regions and peoples.

Economic shrinking, a key feature of development, remains underexplored. This issue invites studies on shrinking economies, focusing on the Global South.

📢 Call for Papers: New Research on the Economic History of Thailand Are you working on the economic history of Thailand? Chulalongkorn University, Thammasat University, and the University of Barcelo...

Submit research on colonial capital, firms, and labour systems. Explore how colonial economies distributed gains and costs across regions and peoples.

The Economic History Society of Southern Africa strives to promote the study of, and interest in economic and social history. Economic History of Developing Regions (formerly the South African Journal...

Economic shrinking, a key feature of development, remains underexplored. This issue invites studies on shrinking economies, focusing on the Global South.

📢 Call for Papers: New Research on the Economic History of Thailand 🇹🇭 Researchers working on the economic history of Thailand are invited to submit abstracts for a one-day workshop at Chulalongkorn ...

Submit research on colonial capital, firms, and labour systems. Explore how colonial economies distributed gains and costs across regions and peoples.

📢 Call for Papers: New Research on the Economic History of Thailand Are you working on the economic history of Thailand? Chulalongkorn University, Thammasat University, and the University of Barcelo...

Submit research on colonial capital, firms, and labour systems. Explore how colonial economies distributed gains and costs across regions and peoples.

Economic shrinking, a key feature of development, remains underexplored. This issue invites studies on shrinking economies, focusing on the Global South.

Economic shrinking, a key feature of development, remains underexplored. This issue invites studies on shrinking economies, focusing on the Global South.

Publishes research on the economic history of the Global South, including Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East.

This paper presents an empirical analysis of the relationship between leases and income, and the agricultural sector’s output, during the Pampas expansion in Argentina (1895–1947). The findings sho...

This paper examines sovereign lending to Mexico in the Euromarkets during the decade preceding the 1982 international debt crisis, focusing on the interaction between syndicated bank credits and in...

This article reconstructs the entrepreneurial investment network behind the rise of the textile industry in Antioquia – one of Colombia’s leading industrial regions – between the late nineteenth ce...

The Economic History Society of Southern Africa strives to promote the study of, and interest in economic and social history. Economic History of Developing Regions (formerly the South African Journal...

South Africa prior to 1994 constitutes a paradigmatic case of entrenched racial segregation and state-sanctioned discrimination. Black, Coloured, and Asian populations were systematically relegated...

This paper examines long-term colonial trade linkages using import data from South and Southeast Asian colonies between 1874 and 1913. It analyses the ‘colonial effect’ on imports, focusing on how ...

This paper analyses mining operations by multinational mining companies in Chile and Congo (1910s–1960s), focusing on methods to establish control over subsidiaries. It examines Andes Copper Compan...

The Economic History Society of Southern Africa strives to promote the study of, and interest in economic and social history. Economic History of Developing Regions (formerly the South African Journal...

This study examines the dietary conditions of the Chilean population in 1960. It evaluates the relationship between food poverty and income inequality through an integrated analysis of consumption-...

In this article, we investigate how wealth evolved across social classes following land-encroachment policies implemented in Sonora in the late nineteenth century. Using a database of will inventor...

The International Macroeconomic History Online Seminar Series, jointly organised by the Graduate Institute's Centre for Finance and Development, Centre for Economic Policy Research and a consortium of...

Volume 40, Issue 3 of Economic History of Developing Regions

Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA), in collaboration with the Economic History Society of South Africa (EHSSA), is pleased to announce a two-day confe ...

Please use this form to register for the IPUMs International Session hosted by the Historical Economic Demography Group at LSE. The session will be on Zoom from 15:15-16:30 UK Time on 12 November 202...

Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA), in collaboration with the Economic History Society of South Africa (EHSSA), is pleased to announce a two-day confe ...

In a bid to maintain sovereignty, Siam strategically adopted the Torrens system of land administration in 1901, effectively converting traditional secure usufruct rights to fully transferable priva...

Colonialism has important effects for former colonies, and despite the long colonial history between Europe and Africa, the nuances of the impacts of that history are relatively understudied. The c...

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New Voices on Nigerian Economic History. Volume 40, Issue 2 of Economic History of Developing Regions