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Concessions, Violence, and Indirect Rule : Evidence from the Congo Free State
Lowes, Sara; Montero, Eduardo - 2022
All colonial powers granted concessions to private companies to extract natural resources during the colonial era. Within Africa, these concessions were characterized by indirect rule and violence. We use the arbitrarily defined borders of rubber concessions granted in the north of the Congo...
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Property Rights and Financial Development : The Legacy of Japanese Colonial Institutions
Yoo, Dongwoo - 2010
Several studies link modern economic performance to institutions transplanted by European colonizers and here we extend this line of research to Asia. Japan imposed its system of well-defined property rights in land on some of its Asian colonies, including Korea, Taiwan and Palau. In 1939 Japan...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135762
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Divide and Rule or the Rule of the Divided? Evidence from Africa
Michalopoulos, Stelios - 2011
We investigate jointly the importance of contemporary country-level institutional structures and local ethnic-specific pre-colonial institutions in shaping comparative regional development in Africa. We utilize information on the spatial distribution of African ethnicities before colonization...
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Colonialism and Economic Development in Africa
Heldring, Leander - 2012
In this paper we evaluate the impact of colonialism on development in Sub-Saharan Africa. In the world context …, colonialism had very heterogeneous effects, operating through many mechanisms, sometimes encouraging development sometimes … the colonial period, but also to take a view on what might have happened without colonialism and also to take into account …
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Finding Eldorado : Slavery and Long-Run Development in Colombia
Acemoglu, Daron - 2012
Slavery has been a major institution of labor coercion throughout history. Colonial societies used slavery intensively across the Americas, and slavery remained prevalent in most countries after independence from the European powers. We investigate the impact of slavery on long-run development...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104727
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Lost Decades : Lessons from Post-Independence Latin America for Today's Africa
Bates, Robert - 2007
Africa and Latin America secured their independence from European colonial rule a century and half apart: most of Latin America after 1820 and most of Africa after 1960. Despite the distance in time and space, they share important similarities. In each case independence was followed by political...
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British Colonial Institutions and Economic Development in India
Kapur, Shilpi - 2006
We explore the impact of British colonial institutions on the economic development of India. In some regions, the British colonial government assigned property rights in land and taxes to landlords whereas in others it assigned them directly to cultivators or non-landlords. Although Banerjee and...
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Historical Legacies and African Development
Michalopoulos, Stelios - 2018
As Africa's role on the global stage is rising, so does the need to understand the shadow of history on the continent's economy and polity. We discuss recent works that shed light on Africa's colonial and precolonial legacies. The emerging corpus is remarkably interdisciplinary. Archives,...
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Dynamic Trade, Endogenous Institutions and the Colonization of Hong Kong : A Staged Development Framework
Cheung, T. Terry - 2017
To explore the interplays between trade and institutions, we construct a staged development framework with multi-period discrete choices to study the colonization of Hong Kong, which served to facilitate the trade of several agricultural and manufactured products, including opium, between...
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The Myth of the Frontier
Garcia-Jimeno, Camilo - 2010
One of the most salient explanations for the distinctive path of economic and political development of the United States is captured by the 'Frontier (or Turner) thesis'. Turner argued that it was the presence of the open frontier which explained why the United States became democratic and, at...
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