Colonial Legacies and Economic Growth

Robin Grier (robin.grier@ttu.edu)

Public Choice, 1999, vol. 98, issue 3-4, 317-35

Abstract: Much of the work on colonialism has been theoretical or anecdotal. In this paper, the author closes the gap between the literature on development and new growth theory by testing the effect of colonization on subsequent growth and development. In a sample of sixty-three excolonial states from 1961-90, he finds that colonies that were held for longer periods of time than other countries tend to perform better, on average, after independence. Finally, the author shows that the level of education at the time of independence can help to explain much of the development gap between the former British and French colonies in Africa. Copyright 1999 by Kluwer Academic Publishers

Date: 1999
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (91)

Downloads: (external link)
http://journals.kluweronline.com/issn/0048-5829/contents link to full text (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

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:kap:pubcho:v:98:y:1999:i:3-4:p:317-35

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.springer. ... ce/journal/11127/PS2

Access Statistics for this article

Public Choice is currently edited by WIlliam F. Shughart II

More articles in Public Choice from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla (sonal.shukla@springer.com) and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (indexing@springernature.com).