Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/161907 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 6468
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
We trace the development of human capital in today’s Senegal, Gambia, and Western Mali between 1770 and 1900. European trade, slavery and early colonialism were linked to human capital formation, but this connection appears to have been heterogeneous. The contact with the Atlantic slave trade increased regional divergence, as the coast of Senegambia developed more quickly than inner areas. This pattern was affected by French early colonialism and by the reaction of different West African populations to the economic incentives provided by foreign demand for agricultural products. The peanut trade since the mid-19th century further amplified regional economic inequalities.
Subjects: 
numeracy
West Africa
trade
colonialism
JEL: 
N37
N57
I21
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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