This paper explores the question whether and to what extent the economic relations between the Netherlands and its former colony Indonesia could be crucial to explaining `metropolitan' economic development and `peripheral' underdevelopment. It first surveys the literature on economic explanations for imperialism and the historiography involving Netherlands-Indonesia relations. The paper then generalises the broad economic importance to the Dutch economy of having Indonesia as a colony. The paper argues that the economic relevance shifted from trade to financial relations since ca.1900.
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Paper provided by Groningen State, Institute of Economic Research- in its series Papers with number
39.
Length: 36 pages Date of creation: 1998 Date of revision: Handle: RePEc:fth:gronig:39
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