Ellen Hillbom

Sustainability Transformation and the Transformative Capacity of Nation States: Implications of Innovation Policy

Cristina Chaminade, Clara Lea Dallaire-Fortier, Ellen Hillbom
(2024) Journal of Innovation Economics & Management , p.181-181
Journal article

Economic development during the height of colonialism, c. 1920-1960

Ellen Hillbom
(2024) Elgar Handbooks in Development , p.56-71
Book chapter

African Economies in the Late Colonial Period, c. 1945-1960

Ellen Hillbom
(2024) The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History
Book chapter

Income inequality and export-orinted commecialization in colonial Africa: Evidence from six countries

Ellen Hillbom, Jutta Bolt, Michiel de Haas, Federico Tadei
(2024) Economic History Review, 77 p.975-1004
Journal article

The History of African Development : A textbook for a new generation of African students and teachers

(2023)
Book

How do Small Island Developing States Meet the Sustainable Development Goals?

Ellen Hillbom, Andrés Palacio, Anna Tegunimataka
(2023) Journal of Sustainable Development, 16 p.17-37
Journal article

Ricing Fortunes : agricultural growth, farm intensification and paddy specialization in two Tanzanian villages

Agnes Andersson Djurfeldt, Ellen Hillbom, Elibariki Msuya
(2021) Prosperity in Rural Africa? : Insights into Wealth, Assets and Poverty from Tanzania , p.237-257
Book chapter

Ewout Frankema and Anne Booth (eds.), Fiscal Capacity and the Colonial State in Asia and Africa, c. 1850-1960

Ellen Hillbom
(2021) The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History / Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis, 18 p.80-82
Review

Measuring historical inequality in Africa: What can we learn from social tables?

Ellen Hillbom, Jutta Bolt, Michiel de Haas, Federico Tadei
(2021) African Economic History Working Paper Series
Working paper

Regional evidence of smallholder-based growth in Zambia's livestock sector

Sarah Alobo Loison, Ellen Hillbom
(2020) World Development Perspectives, 19
Journal article

Tax Bargaining, Fiscal Contract, and Fiscal Capacity in Ghana : A long-term perspective

Prince Young Aboagye, Ellen Hillbom
(2020) African Affairs, 119 p.177-202
Journal article

The Gendered Possibilities for Participating in Agricultural Intensification in Sub-Saharan Africa – a Longitudinal Perspective from Seven Regions in Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia

Agnes Andersson Djurfeltd, Göran Djurfeldt, Ellen Hillbom, Aida Cuthbert Isinika, Miriam Dalitso Kalanda Joshua, et al.
(2020) SSRN (Social Science Research Network)
Preprint

Registration of private interests in land in a community lands policy setting : An exploratory study in Meru district, Tanzania

Robin Biddulph, Ellen Hillbom
(2020) Land Use Policy, 99
Journal article

Is there such a thing as sustainable agricultural intensification in smallholder-based farming in sub-Saharan Africa? Understanding yield differences in relation to gender in Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia

Agnes Andersson Djurfeldt, Göran Djurfeldt, Ellen Hillbom, Aida C. Isinika, Miriam Dalitso Kalanda Joshua, et al.
(2019) Development Studies Research, 6 p.62-75
Journal article

An economic history of development in sub-Saharan Africa : Economic Transformations and Political Changes

Ellen Hillbom, Erik Green
(2019)
Book

The Possibility of Developmental States in Africa

Ellen Hillbom
(2019) The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Politics
Book chapter

Afrika: en kontinents ekonomiska och sociala historia

Ellen Hillbom, Erik Green
(2018)
Book

"The family farms together, the decisions, however are made by the man" -Matrilineal land tenure systems, welfare and decision making in rural Malawi

Agnes Andersson Djurfeldt, Ellen Hillbom, Wapulumuka O. Mulwafu, Peter Mvula, Göran Djurfeldt
(2018) Land Use Policy, 70 p.601-610
Journal article

Policies or Prices? A Gendered Analysis of Drivers of Maize Production in Malawi and Zambia, 2002–13

Martin Prowse, Ellen Hillbom
(2018) Agriculture, Diversification, and Gender in Rural Africa , p.177-195
Book chapter

Initial Conditions and Agricultural Development in Zambia, 1915-2015

Ellen Hillbom, Samuel Jenkin
(2018) Palgrave Studies in Economic History , p.153-178
Book chapter

Occupational Structures in Botswana 1920-2010

Jutta Bolt, Ellen Hillbom
(2018)
Conference paper

Inequality in Federation: Long-term inequality trends for Colonial Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe 1910-1965

Jutta Bolt, Erik Green, Ellen Hillbom
(2018)
Conference paper

Botswana – A Modern Economic History : an African diamond in the rough

Ellen Hillbom, Jutta Bolt
(2018) Palgrave Studies in Economic History
Book

Declining inequality in the midst of diamond-led growth? Trends in Botswana’s income inequality and sectorial change, c. 1966-2016

Jutta Bolt, Ellen Hillbom
(2017)
Conference paper

Long-term trends in economic inequality : Lessons from colonial Botswana, 1921-74

Jutta Bolt, Ellen Hillbom
(2016) Economic History Review, 69 p.1255-1284
Journal article

Pro-poor agricultural growth – Inclusion or differentiation? Village level perspectives from Zambia

Agnes Andersson Djurfeldt, Ellen Hillbom
(2016) Geoforum, 75 p.220-233
Journal article

Endogenous processes of Colonial Settlement : The success and failure of European settler farming in sub-Saharan Africa*

Ewout Frankema, Erik Green, Ellen Hillbom
(2016) Revista de Historia Economica, 34 p.237-265
Journal article

Maize is life! But can we find any benefit from it? : Maize, Diversification and Gender in Malawi and Zambia, 2002-2013

Ellen Hillbom, Martin Prowse
(2016)
Conference - other

Maize for the Mines : The shaping of Zambia’s agricultural sector c. 1915-2015

Ellen Hillbom, Samuel Jenkin
(2016)
Conference - other

Declining income inequality in the midst of Botswana’s diamond-led growth

Ellen Hillbom, Jutta Bolt
(2016)
Conference - other

The Right To Water : An Inquiry into Legal Empowerment and Property Rights Formation in Tanzania¹

Ellen Hillbom
(2016) The Legal Empowerment Agenda : Poverty, Labour and the Informal Economy in Africa , p.193-214
Book chapter

The political economy of Tanzania: decline and recovery

Ellen Hillbom
(2015) Economic History Review, 68 p.763-764
Review

Potential for Diversification? The Role of the Formal Sector in Bechuanaland Protectorate's Economy, 1900-65

Jutta Bolt, Ellen Hillbom
(2015) Economic History of Developing Regions, 30 p.95-124
Journal article

Botswana: Caught in a natural resource trap

Ellen Hillbom
(2015) Natural Resources and Economic Growth: Learning from History , p.77-99
Book chapter

Changing income inequality and structural transformation: The case of Botswana 1921-2010

Ellen Hillbom, Jutta Bolt
(2015) WIDER Working Paper, 2015/028
Working paper

Wet land agriculture, low technology irrigation and agricultural production in Africa : A study of dambos and dimbas in Malawi

Ellen Hillbom
(2015)
Conference - other

’Social structures and income distribution in colonial sub-Saharan Africa: The case of Bechuanaland Protectorate, 1921-1974

Jutta Bolt, Ellen Hillbom
(2015)
Conference paper

Cattle, Diamonds and Institutions: Main drivers of Botswana's economic development, 1850 to present

Ellen Hillbom
(2014) Journal of International Development, 26 p.155-176
Journal article

From millet to tomatoes: incremental intensification with high-value crops in contemporary Meru, Tanzania

Ellen Hillbom
(2014) Journal of Eastern African Studies, 8 p.400-419
Journal article

Changing income inequality and structural transformation: The case of Botswana 1921-2010

Ellen Hillbom, Jutta Bolt
(2014)
Conference paper

Success and Failure of European Settler Farming in Colonial Africa

Ewout Frankema, Erik Green, Ellen Hillbom
(2014) African Economic History Network Working Paper Series
Working paper

Pathdependency in the historical flow of labour migration

Ewout Frankema, Erik Green, Ellen Hillbom
(2014)
Conference - other

How Many Peopla are too Many People?

Ellen Hillbom
(2013) The History of African Development
Book chapter

Social Structures and Income Distribution in Colonial sub-Saharan Africa. The Case of Bechuanaland Protectorate 1936-1964

Jutta Bolt, Ellen Hillbom
(2013) Lund Papers in Economic History. Development Economics
Working paper

Introduction

Ellen Hillbom, Patrick Svensson
(2013) Agricultural Transformation in a Global History Perspective , p.1-25
Book chapter

Indigenous Real Wages and Standards of Living in Colonial Bechuanaland Protectorate, 1900-1960

Jutta Bolt, Ellen Hillbom
(2013)
Conference paper

The History of African Development

(2013)
Book

Introduction

Ewout Frankema, Ellen Hillbom
(2013) The History of African Development
Book chapter

Agricultural Transformation in a Global History Perspective

(2013) Routledge Explorations in Economic History
Book

Welfare, Inequality And Extraction In Colonial Bechuanaland Protectorate

Ellen Hillbom, Jutta Bolt
(2013)
Conference paper

Financial Institutions in an Embryonic Agricultural Transformation Process: The case of contemporary Meru, Tanzania

Ellen Hillbom
(2013) Agricultural Transformation in a Global History Perspective , p.184-205
Book chapter

The Kuznets Curve in contemporary Africa: Changing income inequality and structural transformation in Botswana, 1936-2010

Ellen Hillbom, Jutta Bolt
(2013)
Conference paper

The possibilities and challenges for gender neutral pro-poor agricultural growth in Malawi and Zambia

Agnes Andersson Djurfeldt, Ellen Hillbom
(2013)
Conference paper

Social Structures and Income Distribution in Colonial sub-Saharan Africa: The case of Bechuanaland Protectorate 1936-1964

Jutta Bolt, Ellen Hillbom
(2013)
Conference paper

Social Structures, Standards of Living, and Income Distribution in Colonial Bechuanaland Protectorate

Ellen Hillbom, Jutta Bolt
(2013)
Conference paper

Social Structures, Standards of Living, and Income Distribution in Colonial Bechuanaland Protectorate

Jutta Bolt, Ellen Hillbom
(2013)
Conference paper

Success and Failure of European Settler Farming in Sub-Saharan Africa

Ewout Frankema, Erik Green, Ellen Hillbom
(2013)
Conference paper

Market institutions benefiting smallholders in contemporary Meru, Tanzania

Ellen Hillbom
(2012) Journal of Modern African Studies, 50 p.657-679
Journal article

Assessing the role of property rights and legal empowerment in poverty reduction

Ellen Hillbom, David Alm, Andreas Inghammar, Yahia Mahmoud
(2012) International Social Science Journal, 63
Journal article

Botswana: A development-oriented gate-keeping state

Ellen Hillbom
(2012) African Affairs, 111 p.67-89
Journal article

When water is from God: formation of property rights governing communal irrigation furrows in Meru, Tanzania, c. 1890-2011

Ellen Hillbom
(2012) Journal of Eastern African Studies, 6 p.423-443
Journal article

Consensus Building through Democracy: An inquiry into democratic ideals, basic values and academic leadership within Lund University

Mattias Alveteg, Ellen Hillbom
(2010) AKKA III - Ledarutvecklingsprogram för kvinnor och män vid Lunds universitet 2008-2009
Book chapter

From Millet to Tomatoes: Productivity increase by means of instrocuding high value agricultural products in Meru, Tanzania

Ellen Hillbom
(2010)
Conference paper

Security - A First Priority. The Strength of Communal Property Rights Systems Governing Water in Contemporary sub-Saharan Africa

Ellen Hillbom
(2007) Lund Papers in Economic History
Working paper

To Have and to Hold: Continuity and change in property rights institutions governing water resources among the Meru of Tanzania and the BaKgatla in Botswana; 1925-2000

Ellen Hillbom
(2003) Lund Studies in Economic History, 28
Dissertation

An Investigation Into Informal Property Rights Institutions Governing Water Resources

Ellen Hillbom
(2003)
Conference - other

Acquiring and Defending Water Rights : Problems with analysing property rights institutions governing water resources in rural Sub-Saharan Africa

Ellen Hillbom
(2003)
Conference - other

Creating a methodological Framework for Analysing Property Rights Institutions

Ellen Hillbom
(2001)
Conference paper

Using Property Rights Theory and Elinor Ostrom When Interpreting Ownership and Management of Water in Rural Kgatleng District, Botswana

Ellen Hillbom
(1999)
Conference paper

Who is Wasting the Water? Economic implications of the change in water rights for cattle holders in Botswana

Ellen Hillbom
(1997)
Conference paper

Small Holder Dairy Farming - An Aspect of Farm Intensification. The case of Arumeru District, Tanzania

Ellen Hillbom
(1996) Lund Papers in Economic History
Working paper

Ellen Hillbom

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