The Franco-Congolese agreement to enshrine the corpse of Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza in a grand memorial tomb in Brazzaville (2006) has been decried by many observers as neo-colonial farce. This article interprets France's agenda to propose a ‘suave reconquest' of its former colonies, and...

Assessing changes in living standards in Southeast Asia in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries -- The colonial period: population and output growth in agricultural and non-agricultural sectors -- The colonial period: measures of welfare and changing living standards -- Confronting the...

Contributed articles presented at the International Seminar on Economic Growth, Trade and Poverty, organized at the Institute for Social and Economic Change in association with Sichuan Academy of Social Sciences, during 6-7 December 2012