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This paper documents industrial output growth around the poor periphery (Latin America, the European periphery, the Middle East and North Africa, Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa) between 1870 and 2007. We find that although the roots of rapid peripheral industrialization stretch into the late 19th...
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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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