European Trade, Colonialism, and Human Capital Accumulation in Senegal, Gambia and Western Mali, 1770–1900

Cappelli, Gabriele; Baten, Jöerg

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“…Bales, Trodd, and Williamson (2009, p.63) argue that modern slavery distorts local economies in two ways (1) slave labourers can drag down the wages of free workers in the same sector they work in, and (2) slavery distorts economies by removing slaves and their families from the role of consumers in local economies. On top of that, modern slavery creates inter-generational poverty (Dowlah, 2021), as slavery deprives its victims of opportunities for education, training, and other human capital building, which has long-term effects on their ability to generate income; girls, women, and children are particularly impacted by this (Baten andCappelli, 2017 cited in Dowlah, 2021, p.60). Another factor that is related to the negative impact of modern slavery and economic underdevelopment is, as Faure (2015, p.5) mentions, the fact that by preventing the State from receiving income tax on the wages that enslaved people should have rightfully received and consumption tax from their foregone consumption, it lowers tax revenues.…”

Section: Modern Slavery and The Global Economymentioning

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From Developing to Under Developing Economies - The Storyline of Slavery and Nowadays Consumption

Cozma¹

2023

New Trends in Sustainable Business and Consumption

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Even though many individuals may perceive slavery as a past memory, it nonetheless has a significant impact on society today on a multitude of levels. The modern slavery phenomenon is the consequence of past slavery as it currently exists. Its worldwide effects range from social and cultural impacts to economic and business-related implications. The purpose of this paper is to explore various papers and studies within the academic and grey literature on the profitability of both past and modern slavery, with a focus on how modern slavery may encourage consumption in different industries. The present paper's purpose was accomplished using a qualitative research methodology, more precisely, content analysis. The findings indicate that, in contrast to past slavery, which is typically viewed as profitable and the main driving force of the economic development of certain wealthy empires, such as the British, and Dutch empires, modern slavery has a negative impact on the global economy, contributing to poverty and underdevelopment. Moreover, the fast fashion industry provides several examples of cases in which modern slavery was used to increase consumption in this field. The conclusions of this article raise serious concerns about the issue of modern slavery since it perpetuates economic underdevelopment and poverty, and because the process of uninformed consumption in some industries may contribute to the persistence of this phenomenon. Therefore, this stringent matter allows opportunity for more research and discussion.

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Section: Modern Slavery and The Global Economymentioning

confidence: 99%

From Developing to Under Developing Economies - The Storyline of Slavery and Nowadays Consumption

Cozma¹

2023

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“…To address this problem, we take historical 100-year coal mining as an example and highlight how inclusive mining activity has helped modernize China by facilitating the introduction of modern education systems, which has had an impact on long-term human capital accumulation. Third, this paper adds to the strand of literature studying the economic consequences of colonialism (Austin, 2010;Cappelli & Baten, 2017). In China, this is referred to as the West's foray.…”

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Mineral extraction and long‐term human capital accumulation

Feng,

Zhang,

Zhao

et al. 2023

Review Development Economics

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This study examines the long‐term impacts of early coal mining on human capital outcomes. Based on coal mines across 260 prefectures in late Qing China (c.1840–1912), we find that early coal mining led to a significant rise in schooling years in 2000. We trace the historical channels and show that the influence of early coal mining has persisted through and helped shape the modernization of China, which includes local industrialization and a complimentary supply of educational infrastructure. These results suggest that in contrast to other grabbing mineral extraction, inclusive coal mining systems benefit long‐term human capital accumulation and economic growth, not mining activity per se.

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“…Peanut production in Senegal was based on free labor in the XX century. In the XIX, forms of forced labor were also used(Moitt, 1989;Cappelli and Baten, 2017).…”

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The Long-Term Effects of Extractive Institutions: Evidence from Trade Policies in Colonial French Africa

Tadei

2018

Economic History of Developing Regions

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Despite having convincingly linked colonial extractive institutions to African current poverty, the literature remains unclear about which exact institutions are to blame. To address this research question, in this paper I identify trade policies as one of the main components of colonial extraction by showing their long-term effects on African economic growth. By using the gap between prices paid to African producers in the French colonies and competitive prices as a measure of rent extraction via trade monopsonies, I find a negative correlation between such price gaps and current development. This correlation is not driven by differences in geographic characteristics or national institutions. Moreover, it cannot be explained by the selection of initially poorer places into higher colonial extraction. The evidence suggests that trade monopsonies affected subsequent growth by reducing development in rural areas and that these effects persisted long time after independence.

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European Trade, Colonialism, and Human Capital Accumulation in Senegal, Gambia and Western Mali, 1770–1900

Cited by 18 publications

References 40 publications

From Developing to Under Developing Economies - The Storyline of Slavery and Nowadays Consumption

From Developing to Under Developing Economies - The Storyline of Slavery and Nowadays Consumption

Mineral extraction and long‐term human capital accumulation

The Long-Term Effects of Extractive Institutions: Evidence from Trade Policies in Colonial French Africa

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