Colonial Exploitation And Economic Development

Author : Ewout Frankema,Frans Buelens
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415521741

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Colonial Exploitation and Economic Development by Ewout Frankema,Frans Buelens Pdf

Since many countries in the world at present were European colonies in the not so distant past, the relationship between colonial institutions and development outcomes is a key topic of study across many disciplines. This edited volume, from a leading international group of scholars, discusses the comparative legacy of colonial rule in the Netherlands Indies and Belgian Congo during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Whereas the Indonesian economy progressed rapidly during the last three decades of the twentieth century and became a self-reliant and assertive world power, the Congo regressed into a state of political chaos and endemic violence. To which extent do the different legacies of Dutch and Belgian rule explain these different development outcomes, if they do at all? By discussing the comparative features and development of Dutch and Belgian rule, the book aims to 1) to contribute to a deeper understanding of the role of colonial institutional legacies in long run patterns of economic divergence in the modern era; 2) to fill in a huge gap in the comparative colonial historical literature, which focuses largely on the comparative evolution of the British, French, Spanish and Portuguese Empires; 3) to add a focused and well-motivated comparative case-study to the increasing strand of literature analyzing the marked differences in economic and political development in Asia and Africa during the postcolonial era. Covering such issues as agriculture, manufacturing and foreign investment, human capital, fiscal policy, labour coercion and mineral resource management, this book offers a highly original and scholarly contribution to the literature on colonial history and development economics.

Author : Kenneth Kalu,Toyin Falola
Publisher : Springer
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319964966

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Exploitation and Misrule in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa by Kenneth Kalu,Toyin Falola Pdf

This book offers new perspectives on the history of exploitation in Africa by examining postcolonial misrule as a product of colonial exploitation. Political independence has not produced inclusive institutions, economic growth, or social stability for most Africans—it has merely transferred the benefits of exploitation from colonial Europe to a tiny African elite. Contributors investigate representations of colonial and postcolonial exploitation in literature and rhetoric, covering works from African writers such as Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Kwame Nkrumah, and Bessie Head. It then moves to case studies, drawing lines between colonial subjugation and present-day challenges through essays on Mobutu’s Zaire, Nigerian politics, the Italian colonial fascist system, and more. Together, these essays look towards how African states may transform their institutions and rupture lingering colonial legacies.

Author : Barbara Ingham,Colin Simmons
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2005-06-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135779962

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Development Studies and Colonial Policy by Barbara Ingham,Colin Simmons Pdf

First Published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Miriam Bruhn
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Country Population Profiles
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Good, Bad, and Ugly Colonial Activities: Studying Development across the Americas by Miriam Bruhn Pdf

Abstract: Levels of economic development vary widely within countries in the Americas. This paper argues that part of this variation has its roots in the colonial era. Colonizers engaged in different economic activities in different regions of a country, depending on local conditions. Some activities were "bad" in the sense that they depended heavily on the exploitation of labor and created extractive institutions, while "good" activities created inclusive institutions. The authors show that areas with bad colonial activities have lower gross domestic product per capita today than areas with good colonial activities. Areas with high pre-colonial population density also do worse today. In particular, the positive effect of "good" activities goes away in areas with high pre-colonial population density. The analysis attributes this to the "ugly" fact that colonizers used the pre-colonial population as an exploitable resource. The intermediating factor between history and current development appears to be institutional differences across regions and not income inequality or the current ethnic composition of the population.

Author : Michael Ashley Havinden,David Meredith
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415123089

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Colonialism and Development by Michael Ashley Havinden,David Meredith Pdf

This study of Britain's economic & political relationship with its tropical colonies from 1850-1960 focuses on the former colonies & their development problems, providing a background to understanding the present difficulties facing these countries.

Author : Ulbe Bosma
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107435308

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The Sugar Plantation in India and Indonesia by Ulbe Bosma Pdf

European markets almost exclusively relied on Caribbean sugar produced by slave labor until abolitionist campaigns began around 1800. Thereafter, importing Asian sugar and transferring plantation production to Asia became a serious option for the Western world. In this book, Ulbe Bosma details how the British and Dutch introduced the sugar plantation model in Asia and refashioned it over time. Although initial attempts by British planters in India failed, the Dutch colonial administration was far more successful in Java, where it introduced in 1830 a system of forced cultivation that tied local peasant production to industrial manufacturing. A century later, India adopted the Java model in combination with farmers' cooperatives rather than employing coercive measures. Cooperatives did not prevent industrial sugar production from exploiting small farmers and cane cutters, however, and Bosma finds that much of modern sugar production in Asia resembles the abuses of labor by the old plantation systems of the Caribbean.

Author : Walter Rodney
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781788731201

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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney Pdf

The classic work of political, economic, and historical analysis, powerfully introduced by Angela Davis In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution, leading movements in North America, South America, the African continent, and the Caribbean. In each locale, Rodney found himself a lightning rod for working class Black Power. His deportation catalyzed 20th century Jamaica's most significant rebellion, the 1968 Rodney riots, and his scholarship trained a generation how to think politics at an international scale. In 1980, shortly after founding of the Working People's Alliance in Guyana, the 38-year-old Rodney would be assassinated. In his magnum opus, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, Rodney incisively argues that grasping "the great divergence" between the west and the rest can only be explained as the exploitation of the latter by the former. This meticulously researched analysis of the abiding repercussions of European colonialism on the continent of Africa has not only informed decades of scholarship and activism, it remains an indispensable study for grasping global inequality today.

Author : Gardner, Leigh,Roy, Tirthankar
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781529207668

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The Economic History of Colonialism by Gardner, Leigh,Roy, Tirthankar Pdf

Debates about the origins and effects of European rule in the non-European world have animated the field of economic history since the 1850s. This pioneering text provides a concise and accessible resource that introduces key readings, builds connections between ideas and helps students to develop informed views of colonialism as a force in shaping the modern world. With special reference to European colonialism of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in both Asia and Africa, this book: • critically reviews the literature on colonialism and economic growth; • covers a range of different methods of analysis; • offers a comparative approach, as opposed to a collection of regional histories, deftly weaving together different themes. With debates around globalization, migration, global finance and environmental change intensifying, this authoritative account of the relationship between colonialism and economic development makes an invaluable contribution to several distinct literatures in economic history.

Author : Daron Acemoglu,James A. Robinson
Publisher : Currency
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780307719225

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Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu,James A. Robinson Pdf

Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine? Is it culture, the weather, geography? Perhaps ignorance of what the right policies are? Simply, no. None of these factors is either definitive or destiny. Otherwise, how to explain why Botswana has become one of the fastest growing countries in the world, while other African nations, such as Zimbabwe, the Congo, and Sierra Leone, are mired in poverty and violence? Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson conclusively show that it is man-made political and economic institutions that underlie economic success (or lack of it). Korea, to take just one of their fascinating examples, is a remarkably homogeneous nation, yet the people of North Korea are among the poorest on earth while their brothers and sisters in South Korea are among the richest. The south forged a society that created incentives, rewarded innovation, and allowed everyone to participate in economic opportunities. The economic success thus spurred was sustained because the government became accountable and responsive to citizens and the great mass of people. Sadly, the people of the north have endured decades of famine, political repression, and very different economic institutions—with no end in sight. The differences between the Koreas is due to the politics that created these completely different institutional trajectories. Based on fifteen years of original research Acemoglu and Robinson marshall extraordinary historical evidence from the Roman Empire, the Mayan city-states, medieval Venice, the Soviet Union, Latin America, England, Europe, the United States, and Africa to build a new theory of political economy with great relevance for the big questions of today, including: - China has built an authoritarian growth machine. Will it continue to grow at such high speed and overwhelm the West? - Are America’s best days behind it? Are we moving from a virtuous circle in which efforts by elites to aggrandize power are resisted to a vicious one that enriches and empowers a small minority? - What is the most effective way to help move billions of people from the rut of poverty to prosperity? More philanthropy from the wealthy nations of the West? Or learning the hard-won lessons of Acemoglu and Robinson’s breakthrough ideas on the interplay between inclusive political and economic institutions? Why Nations Fail will change the way you look at—and understand—the world.

Author : Patrick Manning
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2004-06-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521523079

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Slavery, Colonialism and Economic Growth in Dahomey, 1640-1960 by Patrick Manning Pdf

This book integrates into a single framework Dahomey's pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial economic history.

Author : Toyin Falola
Publisher : London ; Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey : Zed Books ; [Atlantic Highlands, N.J. : Distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by Humanities Press]
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : PSU:000012940844

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Britain and Nigeria by Toyin Falola Pdf

Author : Bill Guest,John M. Sellers
Publisher : University of Kwazulu Natal Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040201068

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Enterprise and Exploitation in a Victorian Colony by Bill Guest,John M. Sellers Pdf

Provides a research in the form of twelve essays dealing with closely intermeshed themes: harbour and railway development, the ecology of Natal, ruthless exploitation of its human and natural resources, and the consequences of Indian immigration and Black enterprise. This book charts the socio-economic history of a particular Victorian colony.

Author : Emizet François Kisangani
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000636901

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The Belgian Congo as a Developmental State by Emizet François Kisangani Pdf

This book challenges assumptions that poor post-colonial economic performance is always a direct product of colonialism by reconsidering the Belgian Congo (1908–1959) as a developmental state. The book demonstrates that despite the colonial system’s economic exploitation and extraction, brutality, excessive taxation, and inequities, the Belgian Congo achieved successes in developing the economy in a short period of time. The Belgian Congo was able to achieve this by investing its higher rates of fiscal revenue in political stability, physical infrastructure, education, and healthcare. By reconsidering the Belgian colonial state as a developmental state, this book encourages scholars to adopt a more nuanced analysis of African history. Considering state capacity and state autonomy as key features of a developmental state, the book demonstrates that colonial state managers in the Belgian Congo were able to supply these public goods that sustained economic growth for decades. Whilst by no means glorifying colonialism or the atrocities that were conducted during the Belgian occupation, the book nonetheless outlines how different forms of capitalism were deployed to further economic development in the country. In contrast, predatory state managers of the Congo Free State (1885–1908) and post-colonial kleptocrats (1960–2018) have squandered Congo’s natural resources with disastrous economic and social consequences. Contrasting the Belgian Congo with colonies of settlement and other colonies of extraction, this book encourages researchers and students to reconsider the dominant narratives within colonial history, development, and African Studies.

Author : Juhani Koponen
Publisher : Lit Verlag
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015050255333

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Development for Exploitation by Juhani Koponen Pdf

Koponen (Institute of Development Studies, U. of Helsinki) discusses the relationship between exploitation and development under colonialism, and the underlying issue of the relationship between colonialism and capitalism, by mean of an empirical historical study of the formation, operation, and impact of colonial policies in German East Africa, with particular reference to what is now mainland Tanzania. Distributed by Westview Press. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Ewout Frankema,Frans Buelens
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136759475

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Colonial Exploitation and Economic Development by Ewout Frankema,Frans Buelens Pdf

Since many countries in the world at present were European colonies in the not so distant past, the relationship between colonial institutions and development outcomes is a key topic of study across many disciplines. This edited volume, from a leading international group of scholars, discusses the comparative legacy of colonial rule in the Netherlands Indies and Belgian Congo during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Whereas the Indonesian economy progressed rapidly during the last three decades of the twentieth century and became a self-reliant and assertive world power, the Congo regressed into a state of political chaos and endemic violence. To which extent do the different legacies of Dutch and Belgian rule explain these different development outcomes, if they do at all? By discussing the comparative features and development of Dutch and Belgian rule, the book aims to 1) to contribute to a deeper understanding of the role of colonial institutional legacies in long run patterns of economic divergence in the modern era; 2) to fill in a huge gap in the comparative colonial historical literature, which focuses largely on the comparative evolution of the British, French, Spanish and Portuguese Empires; 3) to add a focused and well-motivated comparative case-study to the increasing strand of literature analyzing the marked differences in economic and political development in Asia and Africa during the postcolonial era. Covering such issues as agriculture, manufacturing and foreign investment, human capital, fiscal policy, labour coercion and mineral resource management, this book offers a highly original and scholarly contribution to the literature on colonial history and development economics.