Colonial railways reshaped local economies in Bosnia, but lasting gains depended on human capital, state capacity, and external competition.
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🆕 Why railways alone don’t drive development
Today on VoxDev, Magnus Neubert (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg) & Stefan Nikolić (Loughborough University) discuss how colonial railways reshaped local economies in Bosnia-Herzegovina:
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Colonial railways reshaped local economies in Bosnia, but lasting gains depended on human capital, state capacity, and external competition.