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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013070725
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013242889
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012995522
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012949418
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013311911
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Agriculture, Roads, and Economic Development in Uganda
Gollin, Douglas - 2014
A large fraction of Uganda's population continues to earn a living from quasi-subsistence agriculture. This paper uses …-subsistence agriculture is highly sensitive both to agricultural productivity levels and to transportation costs. The model also suggests …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013070062
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Did Inequality in Farm Sizes Lead to Suppression of Banking and Credit in the Late Nineteenth Century?
Jaremski, Matthew - 2017
This paper creates a new database that covers all banks in the United States in the census years between 1870 and 1900 to test the interaction between inequality and financial development when the banking system was starting over from scratch. A fixed-effects panel regression shows that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012957385
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Agricultural Diversity, Structural Change and Long-Run Development : Evidence from the U.S
Fiszbein, Martin - 2017
stimulating industrialization, agricultural diversity boosted manufacturing diversification, patent activity, and new labor skills …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962188
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Two Blades of Grass : The Impact of the Green Revolution
Gollin, Douglas - 2018
We examine the economic impact of high-yielding crop varieties (HYVs) in developing countries 1960-2000. We use time variation in the development and diffusion of HYVs of 10 major crops, spatial variation in agro-climatically suitability for growing them, and a differences-in-differences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012916176