The Reparable Damages of European Colonialism in Sub-Saharan Africa

Gregory Price

Chapter Chapter 10 in Accounting for Colonialism, 2023, pp 203-212 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter appeals to findings in the literature based on the adverse effects of colonialism in cross-country growth frameworks to arrive at some benchmark estimates of reparable damages due to colonialism in Sub-Saharan Africa. Estimates from a sample of non-industrial countries suggest that former colonies in Sub-Saharan Africa experienced lost output as a direct result of being colonized. These potentially reparable damages, constituting an unjust lost, and possibly unjust transfers from the colonized to colonizers, are estimated to be worth at least 1.5 million dollars per colonized person for the 1960–1985 time period. To the extent that the adverse output effects of colonial heritage in Sub-Saharan Africa are historically persistent and reach into the contemporary time period, the reparable damage estimates provided here are probably downwardly biased.

JEL-codes: O11 O47 O55 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-32804-6_10

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