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Why did per capita income divergence occur so dramatically during the 19th century, rather than at the outset of the Industrial Revolution? How were some countries able to reverse this trend during the globalization of the late 20th century? To answer these questions, this paper develops a...
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that accelerated even more up to 1950-1975. What explains the spread of the industrial revolution world-wide and this … to have taken resource advantages away from the European and North American leaders, and integrating world financial …
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trade forces produced rising primary product specialization and de-industrialization in the poor periphery. More recently …, modern economists argue that volatility reduces growth in the poor periphery. This paper assess these de-industrialization … divergence between core and periphery. Third, the boom and its de-industrialization impact was only part of the story; growth …
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This paper uses data for nineteen industrial countries over the period 1960-1985 to examine the evidence for international convergence of technical progress. Several models of convergence, including a model in which convergence is affected by changes in a country's openness to trade, are...
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things: (1) that incomes per capita diverged more around the world after 1800 than before; (2) that the source of this …
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Technological diffusion implies a form of 'conditional convergence' as lagging countries catch up with technological leaders. We find strong evidence of technological diffusion but not full convergence; differences in total factor productivity (TFP) persist even in the long run due to differences...
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industrialization, seem to be operating at less than full power. If African countries do achieve growth rates substantially higher, they … will have to do so pursuing a growth model that is different from earlier miracles based on industrialization. This might …
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phenomena - the industrialization and growth take-off of rich northern' nations, massive global income divergence, and rapid …
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A market-size-only theory of industrialization cannot explain why England developed nearly two centuries before China … factor suppliers' organizations such as craft guilds, industrialization no longer depends on market size, but on spatial …
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We revisit Western Europe's record with labor-productivity convergence, and tentatively extrapolate its implications for the future path of Eastern Europe. The poorer Western European countries caught up with the richer ones through both higher rates of physical capital accumulation and greater...
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