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Title:Property rights as an institution in Zambia
Author:Du Plessis, SophiaISNI
Year:2007
Periodical:South African Journal of Economic History
Volume:22
Issue:1
Pages:1-21
Language:English
Geographic term:Zambia
Subjects:property rights
nationalization
mining companies
political systems
External link:https://doi.org/10.1080/10113430709511199
Abstract:Focusing on Zambia as a case study, the author looks at the question of whether the postcolonial extractive institutions were only due to extractive colonization or were already noticeable in the precolonial setting. She argues that Zambia was subjected to extractive colonial rule where little protection was granted to the rights of the indigenous population. This most likely explains infringement of property rights after independence, witness the nationalization of the copper industry, but the policy patterns after independence could also be traced back to precolonial institutions, since the biggest tribe in Zambia, the Bemba, had no history of gathering and protecting private property. Furthermore, negative features of colonialism included its disruptive nature, which left no room for a gradual transformation from a self-sufficient rural society to a society that participates in modern economic activities. The disruption of colonialism was, however, followed by even more disruptions in the postcolonial era and the centralization of power left little room for experimentation and feedback - prerequisites for economic survival - in an uncertain environment. Ref. [ASC Leiden abstract]
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