"The establishment of a sugar processing infrastructure in colonial Java persistently increased industrialization, education, and household consumption in areas near government sugar factories, even after the factories themselves had disappeared. Similarly, villages forced to grow sugar cane for the Cultivation System have more schooling and manufacturing today… the positive impacts on economic activity plausibly dominated [any negative effects] in the long-run."
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History of AfricaFormer colonies in AsiaFormer colonies in AfricaHistory of the NetherlandsDutch Empire
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The Case for Colonialism: A Response to My Critics, Page 6 Kendhammer citing Ochonu, 2009
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