Colonial Balance Sheet
Britain & India ·
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Resource Extraction
Drain of wealth, raw materials, and labor
+$15T
Infrastructure Investment
Railways, ports, telegraph built for extraction
+$5T
Famine Costs
Mortality, relief, and economic disruption
+$10T
Administrative Costs
Colonial bureaucracy and military overhead
+$3T
Interest on Debt
Compounded on colonial-era obligations
+$7T
Modern Economic Impact
Long-run growth suppression and inequality
+$3T
$0.0T
Gap to $43T: $43.0T
Resource
$0T
Infrastructure
$0T
Famine
$0T
Administrative
$0T
Interest
$0T
Modern Impact
$0T
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