Extractive economic institutions are ones that:
a. involve extraction of oil and minerals and mining.
b. enable political leaders to concentrate power in their own hands.
c. grew from European colonization of less developed nations.
d. transfer a nation's income and wealth to a small elite.
Answer: d
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