Bloom, David E; Canning, David; Sevilla, Jaypee - In: Journal of Economic Growth 8 (2003) 4, pp. 355-78
We test the view that the large differences in income levels we see across the world are due to differences in the intrinsic geography of each country against the alternative view that there are poverty traps. We reject simple geographic determinism in favor of a poverty trap model with high-...