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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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FDI and Inequality in Vietnam : An Approach with Census Data
McLaren, John - 2016
We investigate the effects of inward FDI on income distribution and absolute living standards in Vietnam using census … data from 1989-2009. We compute the number of employees of foreign establishments in each of Vietnam's provinces for each …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012977614
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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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The Myth of the Frontier
Garcia-Jimeno, Camilo - 2010
One of the most salient explanations for the distinctive path of economic and political development of the United States is captured by the 'Frontier (or Turner) thesis'. Turner argued that it was the presence of the open frontier which explained why the United States became democratic and, at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012757830
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The Long-Term Effects of Africa's Slave Trades
Nunn, Nathan - 2010
Can part of Africa's current underdevelopment be explained by its slave trades? To explore this question, I use data from shipping records and historical documents reporting slave ethnicities to construct estimates of the number of slaves exported from each country during Africa's slave trades....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759868
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Commodity Price Volatility and World Market Integration Since 1700
Jacks, David S. - 2009
Poor countries are more volatile than rich countries, and we know this volatility impedes their growth. We also know that commodity price volatility is a key source of those shocks. This paper explores commodity and manufactures price over the past three centuries to answer three questions: Has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764828
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Growing, Shrinking, and Long Run Economic Performance : Historical Perspectives on Economic Development
Broadberry, Stephen N. - 2017
Using annual data from the thirteenth century to the present, we show that improved long run economic performance has occurred primarily through a decline in the rate and frequency of shrinking, rather than through an increase in the rate of growing. Indeed, as economic performance has improved...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012957987
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Long-Term Barriers to Economic Development
Spolaore, Enrico - 2015
What obstacles prevent the most productive technologies from spreading to less developed economies from the world's technological frontier? In this paper, we seek to shed light on this question by quantifying the geographic and human barriers to the transmission of technologies. We argue that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013035176