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Structural Change, Fundamentals and Growth : A Framework and Case Studies
McMillan, Margaret - 2017
development quest. The sample includes seven developing countries—Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, Zambia, India, Vietnam and Brazil —all … industrialization only played a significant role in Vietnam …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012956929
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The Historical State, Local Collective Action, and Economic Development in Vietnam
Dell, Melissa - 2017
This study examines how the historical state conditions long-run development, using Vietnam as a laboratory. Northern … Vietnam (Dai Viet) was ruled by a strong centralized state in which the village was the fundamental administrative unit …. Southern Vietnam was a peripheral tributary of the Khmer (Cambodian) Empire, which followed a patron-client model with weaker …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960518
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Entry and Exit of Informal Firms and Development
McCaig, Brian; Pavcnik, Nina - 2023
across regions with varying levels of local economic development in Vietnam. First, we find that informal businesses exhibit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014259546
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129186
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Property Rights and Financial Development : The Legacy of Japanese Colonial Institutions
Yoo, Dongwoo - 2010
Several studies link modern economic performance to institutions transplanted by European colonizers and here we extend this line of research to Asia. Japan imposed its system of well-defined property rights in land on some of its Asian colonies, including Korea, Taiwan and Palau. In 1939 Japan...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135762
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Finding Eldorado : Slavery and Long-Run Development in Colombia
Acemoglu, Daron - 2012
Slavery has been a major institution of labor coercion throughout history. Colonial societies used slavery intensively across the Americas, and slavery remained prevalent in most countries after independence from the European powers. We investigate the impact of slavery on long-run development...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104727
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The European Origins of Economic Development
Easterly, William - 2012
Although a large literature argues that European settlement outside of Europe shaped institutional, educational, technological, cultural, and economic outcomes, researchers have been unable to directly assess these predictions because of an absence of data on colonial European settlement. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104984
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The Link between Fundamentals and Proximate Factors in Development
Keller, Wolfgang - 2013
The paper introduces a framework for studying the hierarchy of growth factors, from deep to more immediate. The specific setting we examine is 18th and 19th century Germany, when institutional changes introduced by reforms and transportation improvements converged to create city growth. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086487
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The Economics of China : Successes and Challenges
Fan, Shenggen - 2013
This paper is the first chapter in the Oxford Companion to the Economics of China (Oxford University Press, forthcoming). Rather than trying to summarize other contributors' views, we provide our own perspectives on the Economics of China--the past experience and the future prospects. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013072868
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Globalization, Democracy and Development
Braga de Macedo, Jorge - 2013
This paper addresses the interactions between globalization, the quality of democracy, and economic convergence using simultaneous estimation techniques. To reflect process, we use multi-dimensional, de facto, and continuous measures of democracy and globalization. To reflect context, as defined...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013073949