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Industrial Catching Up in the Poor Periphery 1870-1975

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2011

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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Financial Development and the Composition of Industrial Growth

Fisman, Raymond J.; Love, Inessa - 2021

We re-examine the role of financial market development in the intersectoral allocation of resources. Specifically, we propose the use of a new methodology that looks at the co-movement in growth rates across pairs of countries to examine the role of financial development in allowing firms to...

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Infrastructure Capital and Economic Growth : How Well You Use it May Be More Important than How Much You Have

Hulten, Charles R. - 2010

This paper shows that those low and middle income countries that use infrastructure inefficiently pay a growth penalty in the form of a much smaller benefit from infrastructure investments. The magnitude of this penalty is apparent when the growth experience of Africa is compared with that of...

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Does Investment in National Highways Help or Hurt Hinterland City Growth?

Baum-Snow, Nathaniel - 2018

We investigate the effects of the recently constructed Chinese national highway system on local economic outcomes. On average, roads that improve access to local markets have small or negative effects on prefecture economic activity and population. However, these averages mask a distinct pattern...

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Intellectual Property Rights, Foreign Direct Investment, and Industrial Development

Branstetter, Lee - 2014

This paper develops a North-South product model in which Southern imitation and the North-South flow of foreign direct investment (FDI) are endogenously determined. In the model, a strengthening of IPR protection in the South reduces the rate of imitation, which, in turn, increases the flow of...

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Clans, Guilds, and Markets : Apprenticeship Institutions and Growth in the Pre-Industrial Economy

de la Croix, David - 2016

In the centuries leading up to the Industrial Revolution, Western Europe gradually pulled ahead of other world regions in terms of technological creativity, population growth, and income per capita. We argue that superior institutions for the creation and dissemination of productive knowledge...

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Flowers of Evil? Industrial Development and Long-Run Prosperity

Franck, Raphael - 2017

This research explores the effect of industrialization on the process of development. In contrast to conventional … steam engines across French departments during the early phases of industrialization, the research establishes that … intensive industrialization in the middle of the 19th century increased income per capita in the subsequent decades but …

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Economic History and Economic Development : New Economic History in Retrospect and Prospect

Temin, Peter - 2021

technology of industrialization was adapted to these factor prices and is not profitable in low-wage economies. The cross-over to …

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How the West 'Invented' Fertility Restriction

Voigtländer, Nico - 2011

, raising average wages significantly, which in turn facilitated industrialization. We analyze the rise of this first socio …

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The Spread of Manufacturing to the Poor Periphery 1870---2007

Bénétrix, Agustín S. - 2012

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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013103787

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