Colonial impact on institutional a economic development of colonies
| Thesis title in Czech: | Colonial impact on institutional a economic development of colonies |
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| Thesis title in English: | Colonial impact on institutional a economic development of colonies |
| Key words: | Colonial empires, economic development, colonialism, export, import |
| English key words: | Colonial empires, economic development, colonialism, export, import |
| Academic year of topic announcement: | 2023/2024 |
| Thesis type: | Bachelor's thesis |
| Thesis language: | angličtina |
| Department: | Institute of Economic Studies (23-IES) |
| Supervisor: | prof. PhDr. Ing. Antonie Doležalová, Ph.D. |
| Author: | hidden - assigned by the advisor |
| Date of registration: | 24.06.2024 |
| Date of assignment: | 24.06.2024 |
| Guidelines |
| Research question and motivation
Main question of the thesis will be, how were impacted former colonies by lingering legacies left by their colonizers, and how much impact on institutions had foreign direct investments from colonizing country on them, and import/export dependency. Motivation and importance of this topic lies in idea that debate about impact of colonialism and its short-run and long-run effects, can be measured also by including foreign direct investments and import and export dependency. Contribution Contribution will lie in bringing new idea as to how look at legacies left by colonist countries. Methodology I will be mainly using Penn world tables, world bank data sets and institutional index from Polity IV as data sources, and will create models with dummy variables diffirentiated by colonizing countries, and estimating legacies with help of the foreign direct investments inflows and their trading dependency on colonizing country. I will describe in detail the methodology I am going to use to study my research question. |
| References |
| Robert Maseland (2017) ‘Is colonialism history? The declining impact of colonial legacies on African institutional and
economic development.‘ Nunn,N.(2014) ‘Historical Development‘ Michalopoulos,S. and Papaioannou, E (2016) ‘The long run effects of the scramble for Africa‘ Bertochi, G. and Canova, F(2002) ‘Did colonization matter for growth? An empirical exploration into the historical causes of Africa‘s underdevelopment‘ Young,C (2004) ‘The end of the post-colonial state in Africa? Reflections on changing African political dynamics‘ |
| Preliminary scope of work |
| Outline
Abstract Introduction a. why is my topic interesting b. brief overview of existing knowledge c. how I add to existing research d. main results and what they mean e. how is the thesis organized Literature review and hypotheses a. literature and background of the debate b. what hypotheses will be tested a. motivation why is it reasonable to test them (why there should be a relationship) Methodology a. relevant description of data b. why I use the independent and dependent variables I use, how they are measured c. how I perform tests Results a. rejecting / not rejecting hypotheses b. my interpretation of the results Conclusion a. broader interpretation of results b. implications for practice c. topics for further research |
| Preliminary scope of work in English |
| Outline
Abstract Introduction a. why is my topic interesting b. brief overview of existing knowledge c. how I add to existing research d. main results and what they mean e. how is the thesis organized Literature review and hypotheses a. literature and background of the debate b. what hypotheses will be tested a. motivation why is it reasonable to test them (why there should be a relationship) Methodology a. relevant description of data b. why I use the independent and dependent variables I use, how they are measured c. how I perform tests Results a. rejecting / not rejecting hypotheses b. my interpretation of the results Conclusion a. broader interpretation of results b. implications for practice c. topics for further research |