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law student @bostoncollege | aa (l2b2) | islam, african history, philosophy, & finance ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀
Joined April 2025
Under King Gezo, Dahomey not only continued the slave trade (albeit marginally), but also developed into a plantation society, supplementing state income from the slave trade with profits from the use of enslaved labor in palm oil plantations.
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RT @Phillip05166897: I said this before and I'll say this again, the alternative idea to Pre-contact SSA natives being farmers is to believ….
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RT @Evolving_Moloch: You've got popular hereditarian anons who know so little about human history and cultural differences they've memed th….
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RT @RebeccaSear: Do 'national IQ' datasets present accurate and unbiased data on average IQs in nation-states worldwide?. A thread 👇. (Spoi….
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RT @milad_leo: Despite the wide distribution of red-brick and stone monumental ruins across the Sahel, they receive far less attention than….
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RT @askiyanist: Caliph Bello seemed to be obsessed with urbanisation and urban planning. He went as far as claiming that living outside tow….
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Islamic movements of the 18th and 19th centuries have led to very unique urbanization processes across West Africa: cities were founded, walled or expanded at fast speed with architectural referenc...
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Low buoyancy seems to correlate with austerity, borrowing, and stifling development.
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High Buoyancy leading to fiscal sustainability enables governments to: . Fund infrastructure, education, and healthcare without excessive debt, while also being able to stabilize economies during downturns (counter-cyclical spending).
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Buoyant revenues imply:. A diversified, formalizing economy (not reliant on volatile commodities), growth in high-productivity sectors (services/industry generate more taxable income than subsistence agriculture for example), and strong compliance and rule of law.
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Tax buoyancy, while not a direct cause or standalone measure, is still nevertheless a strong indirect predictor and diagnostic tool for economic development.
In #Thailand 🇹🇭, only 1 in 3 people received a cash benefit under social assistance programmes in 2023, with spending below 0.8% of GDP. A new @OECD report looks at the financing needed to gradually expand the country’s social assistance coverage. ➡️
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RT @haugejostein: One of my main issues with Western discourse on China is that it often assumes liberal democracy is the only path to stat….
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RT @BrankoMilan: Meaningless recognition of "Palestine" plus meaningless moaning how suddenly the war has become unjust are simply last mom….
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From the 1500s to the 1800s, slavery operated on a system of reciprocity. Europeans were not merely passive participants; they actively enslaved Muslims as well.
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How one million Arab and Black Muslims - many seized on the Mediterranean - were sold to the European world and brutally exploited in the slavery scandal the Right DON'T want to speak about.
How one million white Europeans - many seized on the south coast of England - were sold to the Muslim world and brutally exploited in the slavery scandal the Left DON'T want to speak about
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RT @jjinjjani: The response to this objection would be to state that this view is indeed found amongst scholars within ahl al sunnah classi….
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