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Brazil, Mexico and a few other Latin American republics enjoyed faster industrialization after 1870 than did the rest of Latin America and even faster than the rest of the poor periphery (except East Asia). How much of this economic performance was due to more accommodating institutions and...
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and labor productivity are all linked to factor endowments, to one where (endogenous) productivity change embedded in … Spain, a country which had relatively poor productivity growth in agriculture and low living standards prior to 1800, was a … productivity after 1898 …
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Trade theorists have come to understand that their theory is ambiguous on the question: Are trade and factor flows substitutes? While this sounds like an open invitation for empirical research, hardly any serious econometric work has appeared in the literature. This paper uses history to fill...
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