Publications

2024 (forthcoming), Spatial inequality in living standards and the urban premium in late colonial French West Africa, special issue of the Industrial History Review

2024 (forthcoming), with Emiliano Travieso, “What happened to the workshop of West Africa? Resilience and decline of handicraft textiles in colonial Northern Nigeria, 1911-1952“, Economic History Review

2022: ‘How accurate are the prices in the British colonial Blue Books?’, Economic History of Developing Regions. Accepted manuscript version here.

Working papers

(2021) “The fruits of the boom: real wages and housing costs in colonial Dakar, Senegal (1914-1960)” AEHN Working Paper no 60.

(2021) with Isabella Weber, Gregor Semieniuk and Junshang Liang: “What you exported matters: persistence in productive capabilities across two eras of globalization”, Rebuilding Macroeconomics Working Paper Series, no. 41.

Edited volumes

(ed. with Shiro Armstrong) Asian Economic Integration in an Era of Global Uncertainty, ANU Press, Canberra. 2018.

(ed. with Shiro Amstrong and Adam Triggs): Navigating Prosperity and Security in East Asia. ANU Press, Canberra, 2023.

Edited magazines

2023 (ed. with Mari Pangestu) ‘Industrial Policy 2.0′, issue of the East Asia Forum Quarterly

Some work in progress (please contact me if interested!

Markets after the jihads: statebuilding and grain market integration in colonial West Africa.” [slides] [draft]

A millet field in Haute-Volta (now Burkina Faso), with an automobile under a tree

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