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peripheral industrialization stretch into the late 19th century, the high point of peripheral industrialization was the 1950 …-1973 period, which saw widespread import- substituting industrialization. This period was also the high point of unconditional …
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This paper documents industrial output and labor productivity growth around the poor periphery 1870-1975 (Latin America, the European periphery, the Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia and East Asia). Intensive and extensive industrial growth accelerated there over this critical century. The...
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This paper documents industrial output and labor productivity growth around the poor periphery 1870-1940 (Latin America, the European periphery, the Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia and East Asia). Intensive and extensive industrial growth accelerated there over these seven critical...
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trade forces produced rising primary product specialization and de-industrialization in the poor periphery. More recently …, modern economists argue that volatility reduces growth in the poor periphery. This paper assess these de-industrialization … divergence between core and periphery. Third, the boom and its de-industrialization impact was only part of the story; growth …
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A market-size-only theory of industrialization cannot explain why England developed nearly two centuries before China … factor suppliers' organizations such as craft guilds, industrialization no longer depends on market size, but on spatial …
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Why did per capita income divergence occur so dramatically during the 19th century, rather than at the outset of the Industrial Revolution? How were some countries able to reverse this trend during the globalization of the late 20th century? To answer these questions, this paper develops a...
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This paper presents a new data set on the diffusion of about 115 technologies in over 150 countries over the last 200 years. We use this comprehensive data set to uncover general patterns of technology diffusion. Our main 5 findings are as follows: (i) Once the intensive margin is measured,...
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We explore the role of government in the nexus of finance and trade starting from the earliest days of organised finance in England and then broadening the analysis to 84 countries from 1960 to 2004. For 18th century England, we find that the government expenditures and international trade did...
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This paper studies a growth model that is able to match several key facts of economic history. For thousands of years, the average standard of living seems to have risen very little, despite increases in the level of technology and large increases in the level of the population. Then, after...
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A model is proposed to describe the evolution of real GDPs in the world economy that is intended to apply to all open economies. The five parameters of the model are calibrated using the Sachs-Warner definition of openness and time-series and cross-section data on incomes and other variables...
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