Author: Library of Congress. African SectionPublisher: Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
French-speaking Central Africa
Author: Library of Congress. African SectionPublisher: Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
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Author: The Belgian Congo as a Developmental State
Author: Emizet François KisanganiPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000636909
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
This book challenges assumptions that poor post-colonial economic performance is always a direct product of colonialism by reconsidering the Belgian Congo (1908–1959) as a developmental state. The book demonstrates that despite the colonial system’s economic exploitation and extraction, brutality, excessive taxation, and inequities, the Belgian Congo achieved successes in developing the economy in a short period of time. The Belgian Congo was able to achieve this by investing its higher rates of fiscal revenue in political stability, physical infrastructure, education, and healthcare. By reconsidering the Belgian colonial state as a developmental state, this book encourages scholars to adopt a more nuanced analysis of African history. Considering state capacity and state autonomy as key features of a developmental state, the book demonstrates that colonial state managers in the Belgian Congo were able to supply these public goods that sustained economic growth for decades. Whilst by no means glorifying colonialism or the atrocities that were conducted during the Belgian occupation, the book nonetheless outlines how different forms of capitalism were deployed to further economic development in the country. In contrast, predatory state managers of the Congo Free State (1885–1908) and post-colonial kleptocrats (1960–2018) have squandered Congo’s natural resources with disastrous economic and social consequences. Contrasting the Belgian Congo with colonies of settlement and other colonies of extraction, this book encourages researchers and students to reconsider the dominant narratives within colonial history, development, and African Studies.
The Statesman's Year-Book
Author: S. SteinbergPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230270883
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1691
Book Description
The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
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Author: United States. Foreign Agricultural ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
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Author: The Economic and Social Effects of the Spread of Motor Vehicles
Author: Theo BarkerPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 134908624X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
The Agricultural Economy of the Belgian Congo and Ruanda-Urundi
Author: Snider William SkinnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Notes on the Agricultural Economies of the Far East
Author: Eugene T. OlsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 738
Book Description
Economic and Social Development Plans
Author: Dag Hammarskjöld LibraryPublisher: New York : United Nations
ISBN:
Category : Developing countries
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description