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Title: | Colonialism in Economic Theory: The Experience of Nigeria |
Author: | Smith, Sheila |
Year: | 1979 |
Periodical: | Journal of Development Studies |
Volume: | 15 |
Issue: | 3 |
Period: | April |
Pages: | 38-59 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Nigeria Great Britain |
Subjects: | colonialism cash crops Economics and Trade Development and Technology |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.1080/00220387908421725 |
Abstract: | This paper contends that the political and social. as well as economic, changes attendant upon colonial rule must be examined in order to understand the process. of export expansion. It argues that an analysis of the colonial state cannot be confined to the 'enabling' role of the state in establishing law and order, transport and communications. Rather, the active interventions of the state were crucial in generating and maintaining the conditions for the production of cash crops for export. These interventions include the abolition of slavery, changes in the political and economic powers of the African rulers, changes in the terms on which Africans could engage in economic activities, and taxation and monetary policies. Analysis of these changes provides the basis for understanding the massive increase in export production during the colonial period; the raore conventional economic analyses provide an account of the transformation which is not only simplistic, but misleading. Notes, ref., tab. |