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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 … growth accelerated there over this critical century. The precocious poor periphery leaders underwent a surge and more poor … catching up? Productivity growth certainly made their industries more competitive in home and foreign markets, but other forces …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129186
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Mauritius : African Success Story
Frankel, Jeffrey A. - 2010
What explains the success of Mauritius, a top performer among African countries? It has mostly followed growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135244
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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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Cape Verde and Mozambique as Development Successes in West and Southern Africa
Braga de Macedo, Jorge - 2010
This paper applies an interpretation of how globalization and governance (G&G) interact with convergence given Cape Verde and Mozambique's particular geographical and historical contexts. We hold that development success under globalization entails, necessarily but not exclusively, positive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135763
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The Value of Luminosity Data as a Proxy for Economic Statistics
Chen, Xi - 2010
that luminosity has more value added for economic density estimates than for time-series growth rates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138765
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The Economics and Politics of Women's Rights
Doepke, Matthias - 2011
vote for women's rights, which in turn promotes growth in human capital and income per capita …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117390
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The Future of Economic Convergence
Rodrik, Dani - 2011
continue, and in particular, whether developing nations can sustain the rapid growth they have experienced of late. The good … news is that growth in the developing world should depend not on growth in the advanced economies themselves, but on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120308
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The "Out of Africa" Hypothesis, Human Genetic Diversity, and Comparative Economic Development
Ashraf, Quamrul H. - 2011
This research argues that deep-rooted factors, determined tens of thousands of years ago, had a significant effect on the course of economic development from the dawn of human civilization to the contemporary era. It advances and empirically establishes the hypothesis that, in the course of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122467
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Divide and Rule or the Rule of the Divided? Evidence from Africa
Michalopoulos, Stelios - 2011
We investigate jointly the importance of contemporary country-level institutional structures and local ethnic-specific pre-colonial institutions in shaping comparative regional development in Africa. We utilize information on the spatial distribution of African ethnicities before colonization...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122873
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Income, Democracy, and the Cunning of Reason
Treisman, Daniel - 2011
from power. And in the short run, faster economic growth increases the leader's odds of survival. This logic--for which I …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123698