Colonial administration has brought some benefits to…
1936 CE to 1947 CE
Money has gone into modernization projects.
The economy, stagnant under the Ottomans, has improved, and trade has increased.
Financial reforms eventually break the hold money lenders have over many small farmers.
An honest and efficient civil service is put in place.
New schools are built for the education of Cypriot children.
Whereas only one hospital had existed during the Ottoman era, several are built by the British.
Locusts are eradicated, and after the Second World War malaria is eliminated.
A new system of roads brings formerly isolated villages into easy reach of the island's
main cities and towns.
A reforestation program to cover the colony's denuded hills and mountains is begun.
Still, there is much poverty, industry is almost nonexistent, most manufactures are imported from Britain, and Cypriots do not govern themselves.
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