Cogneau, Denis; Dupraz, Yannick; Huillery, Elise; … - 2024
How much did France pay for its colonial empire? Did colonies benefit from large transfers from French taxpayers and … heavy financial burden for France. We collect novel budgetary and loan data from archives and compute public monetary flows … between France and the colonies between 1833 and 1962. We also provide figures of colonial private investment through the …