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Convergence and Modernization Revisited
Barro, Robert J. - 2012
In an 80-country panel since the 1960s, the convergence rate for per capita GDP is around 1.7% per year. This "beta … "iron-law" rate of 2%. In the post-1960s panel, estimation without country fixed effects supports the modernization … long-term panel with country fixed effects also supports modernization, in the sense of positive effects of per capita GDP …
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The Contribution of China, India and Brazil to Narrowing North-South Differences in Gdp/Capita, World Trade Shares, and Market Capitalization
Wang, Jing - 2012
/capita, shares in world trade and market capitalization attributable both jointly and single to China, India, and Brazil (the three … time. In contrast the North‐China gap falls from 57.2 to 13.1 between 1990 and 2009, and India from 70.4 to 38.1 using … market exchange rates and from 23.4 to 5.5 for China and from 20.7 to 11.4 for India using PPP rates. We calculate the …
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Trends in Regional Inequality in China
Jian, Tianlun; Sachs, Jeffrey D.; Warner, Andrew M. - 2021
convergence among the provinces of China during the period 1952-1993. We find that real income convergence of provinces in China … coastal and interior provinces, rather than increase in variance within each other. Therefore, it seems that China is now on a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013233027
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The Facts of Economic Growth
Jones, Charles I. - 2015
Why are people in the richest countries of the world so much richer today than 100 years ago? And why are some countries so much richer than others? Questions such as these define the field of economic growth. This paper documents the facts that underlie these questions. How much richer are we...
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Technology in the Great Divergence
Clark, Gregory; Feenstra, Robert C. - 2021
In this paper, we examine the changes in per-capita income and productivity from 1700 to modern times, and show four things: (1) that incomes per capita diverged more around the world after 1800 than before; (2) that the source of this divergence was increasing differences in the efficiency of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013221862
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International Trade and Per Capita Income Convergence : A Difference-in-Differences Analysis
Slaughter, Matthew J. - 2021
In this paper I analyze whether international trade contributes to per capita income convergence across countries. The analysis focuses on four important post-1945 multilateral trade liberalizations. To identify trade's effect on income dispersion, in each case I use a difference-in-differences'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013225397
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Per Capita Income Convergence and the Role of International Trade
Slaughter, Matthew J. - 2021
The recent literature on cross-country convergence of per capita income has largely ignored international trade. The reason might be perspective. Most convergence papers frame the analysis in a `Solow world' in which countries exist independent of one another. But most international trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013247408
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Distance, Skill Deepening and Development : Will Peripheral Countries Ever Get Rich?
Redding, Stephen J.; Schott, Peter K. - 2022
This paper models the relationship between countries' distance from global economic activity, endogenous investments in education, and economic development. Firms in remote locations pay greater trade costs on both exports and intermediate imports, reducing the amount of value added left to...
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Globalization and the Great Divergence : Terms of Trade Booms and Volatility in the Poor Periphery 1782-1913
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2008
W. Arthur Lewis argued that a new international economic order emerged between 1870 and 1913, and that global terms of trade forces produced rising primary product specialization and de-industrialization in the poor periphery. More recently, modern economists argue that volatility reduces growth...
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Economic Growth and Convergence, Applied Especially to China
Barro, Robert J. - 2016
From the perspective of conditional convergence, China's GDP growth rate since 1990 has been surprisingly high. However …, China cannot deviate forever from the global historical experience, and the per capita growth rate is likely to fall soon … from around 8% per year to a range of 3 4%. China can be viewed as a middle-income convergence-success story, grouped with …
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