US to the worst recession the world has witnessed for over six decades. Through an in-depth review of the crisis in terms … suggested, while at the same time the majority of the world's poor had benefited insufficiently from stronger economic growth …

This paper shows that 19th-century industrialization is an important determinant of the significant changes in Germany …, economic ascent in the South. Exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in access to coal, we show that early industrialization … turned from an advantage for economic development to a burden after World War II. The dominant position of heavy industry …

cross section of countries make it clear that urbanization and industrialization are strongly associated with the rise of …

In the centuries leading up to the Industrial Revolution, Western Europe gradually pulled ahead of other world regions …

This study investigates the political economy of industrialization in Ethiopia. It discusses the economic and political … used for exploring the role of political economy in Ethiopian industrialization. Different political strategies were … strategies of protectionist import substitution industrialization and the outward strategy of export-oriented industrialization …