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Indian GDP Before 1870: Some Preliminary Estimates and a Comparison with Britain
Broadberry, Stephen N; Gupta, Bishnupriya - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
This paper provides estimates of Indian GDP constructed from the output side for the pre-1871 period, and combines them with population estimates to track changes in living standards. Indian per capita GDP declined steadily between 1600 and 1871. As British living standards increased from the...
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Japan And The Great Divergence, 725-1874
Bassino, Jean-Pascal; Broadberry, Stephen N; Fukao, Kyoji; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
Japanese GDP per capita grew at an annual rate of 0.04 per cent between 725 and 1874, but the growth was episodic, with the increase in per capita income concentrated in three periods, 1150-1280, 1450-1600 and after 1730, interspersed with periods of stable per capita income. There is a...
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How Did Japan Catch-Up On The West? A Sectoral Analysis Of Anglo-Japanese Productivity Differences, 1885-2000
Broadberry, Stephen N; Fukao, Kyoji; Zammit, Nick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
acceleration, comparison with the United States suggests that catching-up only really started after 1950, due to the unusually … dynamic performance of the US economy before 1950. A comparison with the United Kingdom, still the world productivity leader … Japanese manufacturing, which is also obscured by a comparison with the United States. Japan overtook the UK as a major …
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Industries at the World Technology Frontier: Measuring R&D Efficiency in a Non-Parametric DEA Framework
Schmidt-Ehmcke, Jens; Zloczysti, Petra - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
This paper identifies the leading country-industry combinations that define the world technology frontier in manufacturing. Using a unique industry dataset compiled from EU KLEMS and PATSTAT, it explores which countries and industries reveal the most efficient innovation processes. We combine a...
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Industrial Policy and Competition
Aghion, Philippe; Dewatripont, Mathias; Du, Liqun; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
The economic slowdown in the 70s in Latin America and Japan in the late 90s, generated a growing skepticism about the role of industrial policy in the process of economic development. Yet, new considerations have emerged over the recent period, which invite us to revisit the issue. This paper...
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Long-Term Barriers to the International Diffusion of Innovations
Spolaore, Enrico; Wacziarg, Romain - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
We document an empirical relationship between the cross-country adoption of technologies and the degree of long-term historical relatedness between human populations. Historical relatedness is measured using genetic distance, a measure of the time since two populations’ last common ancestors....
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Trade Policy and Economic Growth: A Sceptic's Guide to the Cross-National Evidence
Rodríguez, Francisco; Rodrik, Dani - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
Do countries with lower policy-induced barriers to international trade grow faster, once other relevant country characteristics are controlled for? There exists a large empirical literature providing an affirmative answer to this question. We argue that methodological problems with the empirical...
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Democracy and Reforms
Giuliano, Paola; Mishra, Prachi; Spilimbergo, Antonio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
Empirical evidence on the relationship between democracy and economic reforms is scarce, limited to few reforms and countries and for few years. This paper studies the impact of democracy on the adoption of economic reforms using a new dataset on reforms in the financial, capital, public, and...
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The Diffusion of Development
Spolaore, Enrico; Wacziarg, Romain - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
This paper studies the barriers to the diffusion of development across countries over the very long-run. We find that genetic distance, a measure associated with the amount of time elapsed since two populations' last common ancestors, bears a statistically and economically significant...
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Educational Attainment in the OECD, 1960-95
de la Fuente, Angel; Doménech, Rafael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
This document describes the construction of series on the educational attainment of the adult population in a sample of 21 OECD countries for the period 1960-95. These series are a revised version of the data set described in de la Fuente and Doménech (2000).
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