Whether a country inherited strong property rights often depended on colonial settlement patterns: in places outside the malaria belt that were desirable to live in, colonizers settled permanently and installed home-like institutions (strong property rights, representative government, rule of law), whereas in hostile disease environments they merely extracted resources.
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“so places outside the outside of the malaria belt... if you were an Englishman in the 18th century... to go and and literally settle and raise a family and build a business as opposed to just going in and extracting gold”
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