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Africa Development; Africa Education Review; Africa Insight; Africa Media Review; Africa Renewal; Africa Research Bulletin; Africa Review of Books; Africa, Rivista semestrale di studi e ricerche, successor of Africa: Rivista trimestrale di studi e documentazione; Africa Spectrum; Africa Today; Africa Update; Africa Week; Africa Yearbook; Africa ...
Nathan Nunn (born July 9, 1974) is a Canadian economist and professor of the Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia. [1] He is best known for his research on the long-term effects of slave trade on Africa. His research interests include economic development, cultural economics, political economy and international ...
The journal publishes economic analyses, focused entirely on Africa. Each issue contains applied research together with a comprehensive book review section and a listing of current working papers from around the world. According to the Journal Citation Report, the journal's impact factor was 1.196 in 2020.
Ester Boserup, a scholar of historical economics, published her groundbreaking book, Women's Role in Economic Development, in 1970. [19] This book illustrated the central role women had played in the history of Africa as economic producers and how those systems had been disrupted by colonialism.
Particular topics covered by the journal include: women's activism, sexism in higher education, militarism and peace, and gender-related violence. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Patricia van der Spuy and Lindsay Clowes write that the publication of the journal marked an important step in the development of South African feminism . [ 7 ]
In the preface to her book, Boserup wrote that "in the vast and ever-growing literature on economic development, reflections on the particular problems of women are few and far between". [5] She showed that women often did more than half the agricultural work, in one case as much as 80%, and that they also played an important role in trade. [3]
The Women in Development approach was the first contemporary movement to specifically integrate women in the broader development agenda and acted as the precursor to later movements such as the Women and Development (WAD), and ultimately, the Gender and Development approach, departing from some of the criticized aspects imputed to the WID ...
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