The Great Depression and the Making of the Colonial Economic System in the Belgian Congo

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Title:	The Great Depression and the Making of the Colonial Economic System in the Belgian Congo
Author:	Jewsiewicki, Bogumil
Year:	1977
Periodical:	African Economic History
Volume:	4
Period:	Fall
Pages:	153-176
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Congo (Democratic Republic of)
Subjects:	economic recession colonial economy colonialism Economics and Trade History and Exploration
External link:	https://www.jstor.org/stable/3601245
Abstract:	In the Belgian Congo the Great Depression of the 1930s was the most important stage in the elaboration of the colonial economic system, with all its political (i.e. totalitarian), ideological (i.e. racist via economic dualism) and social (i.e. tribalism) ramifications. Even now its essential characteristics are still present in the economies of the independent African states. Sections: The internal roots of the Great Depression in the Belgian Congo - Dimensioans of the Great Depression in the Belgian Congo - The Congolese 'New Deal', toward a totalitarian society - Conclusion. Notes, maps, fig., French abstract.