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Japan's successful industrialization in the late 19th and early 20th century largely exhausted its then abundant … natural resources. Rather than exemplifying rapid development in the absence of natural resources, Japan shows how laissez … resources curse that undermined its prior state-led industrialization strategy. Japan's post-WWII reconstruction relied little …
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We use new data on manufacturing in Canada to quantify the impact of globalization on the growth and composition of industrialization in the second half of the nineteenth century. We find that industries and regions more exposed to international trade experienced faster growth. Consistent with...
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W. Arthur Lewis argued that a new international economic order emerged between 1870 and 1913, and that global terms of trade forces produced rising primary product specialization and de-industrialization in the poor periphery. More recently, modern economists argue that volatility reduces growth...
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Europeans restricted their fertility long before the Demographic Transition. By raising the marriage age of women and ensuring that a substantial proportion remained celibate, the "European Marriage Pattern" (EMP) reduced childbirths by up to one third between the 14th and 18th century. In a...
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