eprintid: 3691
rev_number: 5
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datestamp: 2021-09-01 11:48:15
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type: thesis
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sword_depositor: 1
creators_name: Wieringa, Niels
creators_id: S4274822
creators_email: nielswieringa@hotmail.com
title: Neocolonialism: Resource extraction and the global distribution of wealth.
ispublished: unpub
full_text_status: public
abstract: Literature on postcolonial economic development consists of a considerable variation of school of
thought. One of the theories, that of neocolonialism, has not seen as much academic consideration as
the rest. Meanwhile, recent findings in postcolonial economic development have increased the
focus on the role of historical colonialism in present-day unequal economic development This, along
with other perspectives on global inequality, have some conceptual ties to the neocolonial thesis. In
addition, due to developments such as the Chinese belt-and-road initiative, the term has seen a
resurgence in the media. For these reasons, this thesis aims to re-evaluate neocolonialism as an
explanation for the global distribution of wealth. It does so with a statistical analysis of the idea that
the continuation of colonial-era economic relations, centered around resource extraction, could
explain the current global distribution of wealth. Statistical analysis shows that the neocolonial model
is not very good at explaining resource dependency, but the same model does explain GDP variance.
date: 2021
pages: 44
thesis_type: master
degree_programme: EG
tutors_name: Ballas, D.
tutors_organization: Fac. Ruimtelijke wetenschappen, Basiseenheid Economische Geografie
tutors_email: D.Ballas@rug.nl
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keywords_local: Neocolonialism
keywords_local: Colonialism
keywords_local: Imperialism
keywords_local: Economic development
keywords_local: Inequality
keywords_local: Reversal of Fortune
keywords_local: Dependency Theory
language_iso: en
agreed_repository: yes
date_issued: 2021-08-31
citation:   Wieringa, Niels  (2021) Neocolonialism: Resource extraction and the global distribution of wealth.  Master thesis.   
document_url: https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/3691/1/Master%20Thesis%20Neocolonialism%20-%20Final%20version%20-%20%20Wieringa%20S4274822%20%282%29.pdf