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Property Rights and Financial Development : The Legacy of Japanese Colonial Institutions
Yoo, Dongwoo - 2010
colonies, including Korea, Taiwan and Palau. In 1939 Japan began to survey and register private land in its island colonies, an … this line of research to Asia. Japan imposed its system of well-defined property rights in land on some of its Asian … Korea and Taiwan secured land taxation and enabled farmers to obtain bank loans for capital improvements, principally …
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480929
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Concessions, Violence, and Indirect Rule : Evidence from the Congo Free State
Lowes, Sara - 2020
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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Equilibrium Fictions : A Cognitive Approach to Societal Rigidity
Hoff, Karla - 2010
This paper assesses the role of ideas in economic change, combining economic and historical analysis with insights from psychology, sociology and anthropology. Belief systems shape the system of categories ("pre-confirmatory bias") and perceptions (confirmatory bias), and are themselves...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462860
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466048
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Lost Decades : Lessons from Post-Independence Latin America for Today's Africa
Bates, Robert H. - 2006
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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Colonialism, Inequality, and Long-Run Paths of Development
Engerman, Stanley L. - 2005
Over the last few years, colonialism, especially as pursued by Europeans, has enjoyed a revival in interest among both …
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Factor Endowments, Inequality, and Paths of Development Among New World Economics
Engerman, Stanley L. - 2002
Whereas traditional explanations of differences in long-run paths of development across the Americas generally point to the significance of differences in national heritage or religion, we highlight the relevance of stark contrasts in the degree of inequality in wealth, human capital, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469450
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The Profitabality of Colonialism
Grossman, Herschel I. - 1993
extralegal appropriation, that determine the profitability of colonialism. The analysis suggests why historically some countries …
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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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