The two ex-British colonies that now use dollars instead of pounds
The Pound was the dominant international currency up until the 1940s but changes to the financial system and new trading ...
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Guyana's Forever Oil
The colonial economy was almost entirely dependent on sugar exports, supplemented by timber, bauxite and gold extraction. Sugar production created a land chronically vulnerable to flood and drought.
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Colonial shuts main gasoline pipeline to investigate leak; gasoline futures highest since October
U.S. gasoline futures touched their highest levels in three months on Tuesday, after Colonial Pipeline, the largest U.S. fuel pipeline operator, said the main artery moving gasoline from the Gulf ...
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Does Britain owe India $65 trillion in colonial-era reparations?
NEW DELHI -- Does the United Kingdom owe reparations to India? Debate over that long-simmering question has been reignited by ...
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Tax reforms will eliminate traces of colonial rule in Nigeria’s economy — Tinubu
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has stated that the controversial tax reform bills are aimed at eliminating the influence of colonial rule on Nigeria’s economy. This comes amid the ongoing ...
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France’s modern colonies: the CFA Franc System
The CFA franc (Franc des Colonies Francais d’Afrique) was introduced in 1945, well before France’s decolonization in the late 1950s, as a way for France to control the economies of its African ...