Sousa, José De; Lochard, Julie - Laboratoire Études et Recherches Économiques … - 2010
Does colonisation explain differences in trade performance across developing countries? In this paper, we analyse the … differential impact of British versus French colonial legacies on the current trade of African ex-colonies. We initially find that … former British colonies trade more, on average, than do their French counterparts. This difference might be the result of the …