A command economy could probably solve it faster.
This is because the government runs the economy in a command system and not the market. The government could in such a case focus all its resources on solving the crisis unlike the free market economy where people dealing with economy might be disinterested since it wouldn't affect their businesses or anything similar.
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I think the kingdom i might be wrong
In colonial America, Africans "contributed" to society by being a source of income for people who bought and sold them into slavery. They also contributed by being laborers in the southern plantations.
Women contributed to the society by being a house wives --meaning they took care of the house-- as well as cooking meals for the family and taking care of the children.
Native Americans, in the earlier days, contributed by trading with settlers and teaching them how to do things in their environment.
(Sorry I really don't know what the children did)