Quan hệ xã hội đã được biến đổi hoàn toàn vào các quan hệ kinh tế, quyền chính trị đã trở thành một phương tiện mà thị trường có thể được đẩy mạnh, và với việc giải thể kiểm tra truyền thống về hành vi "còn [ed] không có hiện thân của ý chí xã hội hoặc người đại diện của phúc lợi công cộng để kiểm soátcác lực lượng kinh tế mà tác động của việc phát hành phương Tây [d] | 174 imperialism sovereignty and international law a colony economic forces had a profound impact on native society that hardly could be reversed by the actions of the colonial government no matter how solicitous and well intended. Social relations were transformed purely into economic relations political authority became a means by which the market could be furthered and with the dissolution of the traditional checks on behaviour there remain ed no embodiment of social will or representative of public welfare to control the economic forces which the impact of the West release d .231 Political advancement and independence hardly became a reality in these circumstances. It was not only the systems of governance that were dictated by economic goals. The old model of colonialism suggested that economic progress was an end in itself and that welfare would be achieved by progress. The new model suggested instead that active state intervention was necessary to achieve Native welfare was a principal preoccupation of enlightened colonial administrators and the PMC. And yet as Lugard s own comments suggest such concerns were entirely utilitarian labour was an asset that had to be Given the decisive importance of economic development to the whole project of colonial governance it followed that economic development almost inevitably distorted the policies intended to protect native welfare. Thus as Furnivall points out T he services intended to furnish the necessary protection functioned mainly to make production more efficient and the services intended to promote welfare directly by improving health and education had a similar result though designed as instruments of human welfare they were perverted into instruments of economic progress. 234 Economic development is crucial to the well being of any society. In this situation however economic progress was equated with the furtherance of a system of economic inequalities specific to colonialism. .
