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The Reparable Damages of European Colonialism in Sub-Saharan Africa

In: Accounting for Colonialism

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  • Gregory N. Price

    (Urban Entrepreneurship and Policy Research Institute, University of New Orleans)

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.

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  • Gregory N. Price, 2023. "The Reparable Damages of European Colonialism in Sub-Saharan Africa," Springer Books, in: Richard F. America (ed.), Accounting for Colonialism, chapter 0, pages 203-212, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-031-32804-6_10
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-32804-6_10
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    JEL classification:

    • O11 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
    • O47 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - Empirical Studies of Economic Growth; Aggregate Productivity; Cross-Country Output Convergence
    • O55 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Africa

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