The report by the Commonwealth Observer Group of the 2001 Gambian elections. Illustrated with b/w photographs. Tables, notes, 31pp. COMMONWEALTH SECRETARIAT, 0850927161

Emphasizes the pre-colonial expansion of production through migrant labour, local domestic producers and European merchants who created a credit system and the means of collecting produce. The trade was also shaped by fluctuations in world market prices. By the early 20th century the British Administra-tion was trying to manage a migrant driven economy requiring imported food, and a deteriorating climate, exacerbated by. The First World War and the following Trade depression. 250pp, NETHERLANDS. E J BRILL.