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Capital and Colonialism : The Return on British Investments in Africa 1869–1969
Rönnbäck, Klas; Broberg, Oskar - 2019 - 1st ed. 2019
colonialism in theory -- Chapter 4: Previous research -- Chapter 5: Method and data -- Part II: Aggregate results -- Chapter 6 …This book engages in the long-standing debate on the relationship between capitalism and colonialism. Specifically … colonialism was highly complex. While return from investing in African colonies on average was not extraordinary, there were …
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The Creation of the East Timorese Economy : Volume 1: History of a Colony
Lundahl, Mats; Sjöholm, Fredrik - 2019 - 1st ed. 2019
1. ‘Where the Sandalwood Is Born’: East Timor until the Mid-Eighteenth Century -- 2. The Two Last Centuries of Portuguese Domination -- 3. The Indonesian Occupation -- 4. The Economy under Occupation -- 5. Launching a New State -- 6. Conclusions
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012398699
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Monetary Transitions : Currencies, Colonialism and African Societies
Pallaver, Karin (ed.) - 2022 - 1st ed. 2022.
This book uses money as a lens through which to analyze the social and economic impact of colonialism on African …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012814641
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482112
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The Determinants of Food Aid Provisions to Africa and the Developing World
Nunn, Nathan - 2010
We examine the supply-side and demand-side determinants of global bilateral food aid shipments between 1971 and 2008. First, we find that domestic food production in developing countries is negatively correlated with subsequent food aid receipts, suggesting that food aid receipt is partly driven...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462047
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Commodity Exports, Invisible Exports and Terms of Trade for the Middle Colonies, 1720 to 1775
Mancall, Peter - 2008
Economic historians of the eighteenth-century British mainland North American colonies have given considerable weight to the role of exports as a stimulus for economic growth. Yet their analyses have been handicapped by reliance on one or two time series to serve as indicators of broader changes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464314
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Law, Endowment, and Finance
Beck, Thorsten - 2002
This paper assesses two theories regarding the historical determinants of international differences in financial development. The law and finance theory holds that legal traditions differ in terms of the priority they attach to protecting the rights of private investors vis-a-vis the State and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469624
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The Pearl of the East : The Economic Impact of the Colonial Railways in the Age of High Imperialism in Southeast Asia
Cubeiro Rodríguez, Dídac - 2023
inlands with port cities and with a global network of connections. This is looked at in the context of the rise of imperialism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013504716
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Imperialism and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa : An Economic and Business History of Sudan
Mollan, Simon - 2020 - 1st ed. 2020.
Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part I. Foundations of Imperialism in Sudan -- Chapter 2. British Business and Sudan During … the Mahdiya -- Chapter 3. The Beginnings of Imperial Development, 1899-1919 -- Part II Business and Imperialism in Sudan … Political-Economy of Imperialism in Sudan -- Chapter 6. The Economy of Sudan, 1919-1939 -- Chapter 7. The Relationship Between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012399738