Hanaan Marwah
Biographic Data
| ID | 1179442 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hanaan Marwah |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hanaan |
| FAMILY NAME | Marwah |
| SIGNATURE | MARWAH H |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Cooking in the margins
Untangling government, market, and investment failure during the Nigerian oil boom
The ‘Cement Armada’ was a major Nigerian government scandal which culminated in hundreds of cement-laden ships arriving en masse at Lagos, creating severe multi-year-long port congestion during the height of the 1970s oil boom. In spite of the scale of the scandal, its causes and consequences have received little attention from scholars. This article presents new research which suggests the Armada was one of several contributing factors to the ex…
Electricity Access Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1950–2000
It is well known that Africa currently has the lowest electricity access rate of any continent, a legacy of minimal colonial investment in electricity distribution. However, that post-1960 access has been highly uneven within and between sub-Saharan African countries, with significant implications for historical economic inequality and growth trends, has largely been left out of existing historical scholarship. This article reviews the history of…
What explains slow sub-SaharanAfrican growth? Revisiting oil boom-era investment and productivity inNigeria's national accounts, 1976-85
Scholars have struggled to understand the role of investment in the slow growth of post-Independence sub-SaharanAfrica. Existing research has largely relied on national accounting data, which suggests low returns on investment in the region. This article uses data gathered during fieldwork to investigate the quality of the investment data in the national accounts ofNigeria,Africa's most populous economy. It proposes a new investment series which …
What explains slow sub-SaharanAfrican growth? Revisiting oil boom-era investment and productivity inNigeria's national accounts, 1976-85
Scholars have struggled to understand the role of investment in the slow growth of post-Independence sub-SaharanAfrica. Existing research has largely relied on national accounting data, which suggests low returns on investment in the region. This article uses data gathered during fieldwork to investigate the quality of the investment data in the national accounts ofNigeria,Africa's most populous economy. It proposes a new investment series which …
Electricity Access Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1950–2000
It is well known that Africa currently has the lowest electricity access rate of any continent, a legacy of minimal colonial investment in electricity distribution. However, that post-1960 access has been highly uneven within and between sub-Saharan African countries, with significant implications for historical economic inequality and growth trends, has largely been left out of existing historical scholarship. This article reviews the history of…
Untangling government, market, and investment failure during the Nigerian oil boom
The ‘Cement Armada’ was a major Nigerian government scandal which culminated in hundreds of cement-laden ships arriving en masse at Lagos, creating severe multi-year-long port congestion during the height of the 1970s oil boom. In spite of the scale of the scandal, its causes and consequences have received little attention from scholars. This article presents new research which suggests the Armada was one of several contributing factors to the ex…
Cooking in the margins
Economics (4 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Boom (2 works) · Business (2 works) · Economy (2 works) · Energy and Environment Impacts (2 works) · Investment (military (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Macroeconomics (2 works)