| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w18566 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 18566 |
| Colonialism and Economic Development in Africa | |
| Leander Heldring; James A. Robinson | |
| 发表日期 | 2012-11-29 |
| 出版年 | 2012 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | 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 retarding it. In the African case, however, this heterogeneity is muted, making an assessment of the average effect more interesting. We emphasize that to draw conclusions it is necessary not just to know what actually happened to development during the colonial period, but also to take a view on what might have happened without colonialism and also to take into account the legacy of colonialism. We argue that in the light of plausible counter-factuals, colonialism probably had a uniformly negative effect on development in Africa. To develop this claim we distinguish between three sorts of colonies: (1) those which coincided with a pre-colonial centralized state, (2) those of white settlement, (3) the rest. Each have distinct performance within the colonial period, different counter-factuals and varied legacies. |
| 主题 | History ; Labor and Health History ; Other History ; Development and Growth ; Country Studies |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w18566 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/576241 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Leander Heldring,James A. Robinson. Colonialism and Economic Development in Africa. 2012. |
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