Economy development of Germany colonies in no WW1 world

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How would the German colonies in Asia and Africa develop without WW1? In German East Africa (Tanzania) cotton was finally grown in quantity in 1908, but the following year pests destroyed 2/3rds of the fields.
http://www.spinnerei.de/an-african-adventure.html
Also in German New Guinea there was gold discovered in land after the Australians took it over.

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/2797.htm
Mineral and Oil Resources
Papua New Guinea is richly endowed with gold, copper, oil, natural gas, and other minerals. In 2006 minerals and oil export receipts accounted for 82% of GDP. Government revenues and foreign exchange earnings depend heavily on mineral and oil exports. Indigenous landowners in areas affected by minerals projects also receive royalties from those operations. Copper and gold mines are currently in production at Porgera, Ok Tedi, Misima, and Lihir. A consortium led by Exxon/Mobil hopes to begin the commercialization of the country's estimated 22.5 trillion cubic feet of natural gas reserves through the construction of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) production facility by 2010. Interoil, an American-owned firm, opened Papua New Guinea's first oil refinery in 2004 and is exploring the feasibility of building a liquefied natural gas production facility by 2012 with production capacity of 32,500 barrels of product per day.

So what could be possible?
 
Maybe the Colonies can Become Self Suficient

Umm, if we keep away the war(or even in a victorius scenario) that main problem who have Germany with her colonies is that the mostly of then doesn't have a Cash value Resource at the time of their loses and for that, was a fiscal drain for the Fatherland.

Now with the New Guinea mineral wealth.. that will be the first one in make profit and with that... will demand capital extensive workerd and very educated one... that means than both the native will become the germanize and a lot of Germans will be invited to explode the 'foreing wealths and wonder of the south seas colonies', in the long term... that can be interesting if both the germanize natives and the german colonist demand political rights to Berlin(and with the small of New guinea is easy)

about the africans colonies... know little. but maybe the black descedant football player can make germany won more FIFA championship?:D;)
 

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_East_Africa
Economic development
Commerce and growth started in earnest under German direction. Early on it was realized that economic development would depend on reliable transportation. Over 100,000 acres (40,000 hectares) were under sisal cultivation - the biggest cash crop. Two million coffee trees were planted and rubber trees grew on 200,000 acres (80,000 hectares ), along with large cotton plantations. To bring these agricultural products to market, beginning in 1888, the Usambara Railway, or Northern Railroad, was built from Tanga to Moshi. The longest line, the Central Railroad covered 775 miles (1,250 kilometers) from Dar es Salaam to Morogoro, Tabora and Kigoma. The final link to the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika had been completed in July 1914 and was cause for a huge and festive celebration in the capital with an agricultural fair and trade exhibition. Harbor facilities were built or improved with electrical cranes, with rail access and warehouses. Wharves were remodeled at Tanga, Bagamoyo and Lindi. In 1912 Dar es Salaam and Tanga received 356 freighters and passenger steamers and over 1,000 coastal ships and local trading vessels.[4] By 1914 Dar es Salaam and the surrounding province had a population of 166,000, among them 10,490(1,050 Europeans, 1,000 of them Germans. In all of the east African protectorate were 3,579 Germans.[5] In its own right, Dar es Salaam became the showcase city of all of tropical Africa.[6]
Gold mining in Tanzania in modern times dates back to the German colonial period, beginning with gold discoveries near Lake Victoria in 1894. The first gold mine in the colony was the Sekenke Gold Mine, which began operation in 1909 after gold was found there in 1907.[7]
Despite all these efforts, German East Africa never achieved a profit for the German Empire and needed to be subsidized by the Berlin treasury.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_South_West_Africa
German South-West Africa was the only German colony where Germans settled in large numbers. German settlers were drawn to the colony by economic possibilities in diamond and copper mining, and especially farming. In 1902 the colony had 200,000 inhabitants, though only 2,595 were German, 1,354 were Afrikaner, and 452 were British. By 1914, 9,000 more German settlers had arrived. There were probably around 80,000 Herero, 60,000 Ovambo, and 10,000 Nama, who were disparagingly referred to as Hottentots.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamerun
With imperial treasury subsidies, the colony built two rail lines from the port city of Duala to bring agricultural products to market: the Northern line of 160 km to the Manegua mountains, and the 300 km long mainline to Makak on the river Nyong.[5] An extensive postal and telegraph system and a river navigation network with government ships connected the coast to the interior. The protectorate was enlarged with Neukamerun in 1911 as part of the settlement of the Agadir Crisis, resolved by the Treaty of Fez.

Modern Cameroon from CIA world factbook:
Because of its modest oil resources and favorable agricultural conditions, Cameroon has one of the best-endowed primary commodity economies in sub-Saharan Africa.
 
hat means than both the native will become the germanize and a lot of Germans will be invited to explode the 'foreing wealths and wonder of the south seas colonies', in the long term.

Why would they Germanize? There were plenty of resource extraction based colonial economies in OTL that didn't end up producing good Britons, Frenchmen, etc.
 
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