North Africa

Klas Rönnbäck () and Oskar Broberg ()
Additional contact information
Klas Rönnbäck: University of Gothenburg
Oskar Broberg: University of Gothenburg

Chapter 8 in Capital and Colonialism, 2019, pp 149-174 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In this chapter, we study the return on investment in North Africa from 1869 to 1969. Most equities traded on the London Stock Exchange for companies operating in that region were related to Egypt. The chapter will therefore mainly engage with these investments and only briefly discuss other parts of North Africa. Investors were particularly targeting the Suez Canal Company. We put our estimates on the return on investment in their historical context, including the Dual Control and the occupation of Egypt, the colonial period as well as the period of decolonization. We therefore draw heavily on previous research in the field. We also contribute to the historiography of the region by providing evidence on the return on investment there, which generally has been lacking in the previous research.

Date: 2019
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palscp:978-3-030-19711-7_8

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.palgrave.com/9783030197117

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-19711-7_8

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Palgrave Studies in Economic History from Palgrave Macmillan
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().