O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj; Benetrix, Agustin S.; … - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2012
This paper documents industrial output growth around the poor periphery (Latin America, the European periphery, the Middle East and North Africa, Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa) between 1870 and 2007. We provide answers to the following questions. When and where did rapid industrial growth...