Indigenous and Colonial Origins of Comparative Economic Development : The Case of Colonial India and Africa

This paper concerns the institutional origins of economic development, emphasizing the cases of nineteenth-century India and Africa. Colonial institutions-the law, western style property rights, newspapers and statistical analysis-played an importa...

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Main Author: Bayly, C. A.
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:
GDP
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2008/01/8941952/indigenous-colonial-origins-comparative-economic-development-case-colonial-india-africa
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/6450