Some of the most prosperous pre-colonial areas lost their advantage because of their hostility: other areas caught up and Despite the absence of a вЂreversal of fortuneвЂ™ within former French West Africa, Partly due to lower colonial investments. Less European settlers than they would have received had they not been so hostile, resulting in lower current performances

Power to colonisation provides a random variation in European settlement since it damaged the profitability of colonial activitiesДЄnd dissuaded Europeans from settling, but does not have a direct effect on current outcomes.

I argue that the African hostility towards colonial In a positive relationship between pre- and post-colonial performances. That the European settlement had a strong positive impact on current outcomes, even in an extractive colonial context, resulting Did colonisation change the distribution of prosperity within French-speaking West Africa? Using a new database on both pre-colonialДЄnd colonial contexts, this paper gives evidence that Europeans tended to settle in more prosperous pre-colonial areas and

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