Holdings: Good, Bad, and Ugly Colonial Activities : Studying Development Across the Americas

Good, Bad, and Ugly Colonial Activities : Studying Development Across the Americas

Levels of economic development vary widely within countries in the Americas. This paper argues that part of this variation has its roots in the colonial era. Colonizers engaged in different economic activities in different regions of a country, dep...

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Main Authors:	Bruhn, Miriam, Gallego, Francisco A.
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:	ACCESS TO EDUCATION AGE DISTRIBUTION AGRICULTURE BENCHMARKS CALCULATIONS CASH CROPS CENSUS CENTRAL AMERICA CENTRAL AMERICAN CENTRAL BANK CHECKS CIVIL RIGHTS COMMODITIES CONTACT POPULATION CONTRIBUTION DECENTRALIZATION DISCRIMINATION DUAL ECONOMY ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES ECONOMIC ACTIVITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC HISTORY ECONOMIC OUTCOMES ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE ECONOMIC POWER ECONOMIES OF SCALE EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT EQUAL ACCESS ETHNIC GROUPS FUTURE RESEARCH GDP GDP PER CAPITA GOVERNMENT POLICIES GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT PER CAPITA HOUSEHOLD INCOME HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HUMAN CAPITAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT IMMIGRATION IMPACT OF POPULATION INCOME INEQUALITY INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT LABOR FORCE LABOR SUPPLY LAND TENURE LEVEL OF DEVELOPMENT MALARIA MORTALITY NATIONAL LEVEL NATIONAL POLICIES NATIVE POPULATION NATURAL ENVIRONMENT NATURAL RESOURCES ORGANIZATIONAL FORM POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POLITICAL POWER POPULATION DENSITY POPULATION ESTIMATES POVERTY RATE POVERTY RATES PROBABILITY PRODUCTION FUNCTION PROGRESS PROPERTY OWNERSHIP PROPERTY RIGHTS PUBLIC GOODS RESEARCH ASSISTANCE RESPECT SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS SOCIAL SCIENCES SOCIETAL NORMS SOURCE OF INFORMATION TRANSPORTATION TRAUMA UNEMPLOYMENT UNIONS VALUABLE WEALTH
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2008/06/9496791/good-bad-ugly-colonial-activities-studying-development-across-americas http://hdl.handle.net/10986/6661

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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2008/06/9496791/good-bad-ugly-colonial-activities-studying-development-across-americas
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/6661

Good, Bad, and Ugly Colonial Activities : Studying Development Across the Americas

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