Plumptre, A.F.W.2007-11-132007-11-131937Plumptre, A. F. (1937). The Nature of Political and Economic Development in the British Dominions. Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science/Revue canadienne de economiques et science politique, 3(4), 489-507. DOI: 10.2307/1365671920-7220http://hdl.handle.net/10625/21131http://www.jstor.org/stable/136567Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa have two attributes which, taken together, distinguish them from all other countries: they are new countries and they are British Dominions. Economically, their outstanding feature is the relative abundance of their resources in relation to their population and supplies of capital. Politically, it is the fairly recent emergence of self-government under institutions modelled upon those of Great Britain and erected within the loose and conveniently ambiguous constitution of the British Empire. Culturally, too, they are predominantly British; although special reservations must be made in the cases of Canada and South Africa. As a result of their similarities it is possible to draw a number of general conclusions regarding the nature and direction of their growth.enHISTORYPOLITICAL DEVELOPMENTECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTCANADAAUSTRALIANEW ZEALANDSOUTH AFRICACOMMODITIESEXPORTSRESOURCES DEVELOPMENTFINANCIAL RESOURCESPUBLIC OWNERSHIPNATIONALISMJournal Article (peer-reviewed)