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Flowers of Evil? Industrial Development and Long-Run Prosperity

Franck, Raphaël - 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 …

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Economic History and Economic Development : New Economic History in Retrospect and Prospect

Temin, Peter - 2014

technology of industrialization was adapted to these factor prices and is not profitable in low-wage economies. The cross-over to …

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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...

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Ruggedness : The Blessing of Bad Geography in Africa

Nunn, Nathan - 2009

There is controversy about whether geography matters mainly because of its contemporaneous impact on economic outcomes or because of its interaction with historical events. Looking at terrain ruggedness, we are able to estimate the importance of these two channels. Because rugged terrain hinders...

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The Long-Term Effects of Africa's Slave Trades

Nunn, Nathan - 2007

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 To explore this question, I use data from shipping records and historical documents reporting slave ethnicities to construct estimates of the number of slaves exported from each country during Africa's slave trades....

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The Origins of Financial Development : How the African Slave Trade Continues to Influence Modern Finance

Levine, Ross - 2017

We assess how the African slave trade--which had enduring effects on social cohesion--continues to influence financial systems. After showing that the intensity with which people were enslaved and exported from Africa during the 1400 - 1900 period helps account for overall financial development,...

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Finding Eldorado : Slavery and Long-run Development in Colombia

Acemoglu, Daron - 2012

Slavery has been a major institution of labor coercion throughout history. Colonial societies used slavery intensively … across the Americas, and slavery remained prevalent in most countries after independence from the European powers. We … investigate the impact of slavery on long-run development in Colombia. Our identification strategy compares municipalities that …

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The Profitabality of Colonialism

Grossman, Herschel I. - 1993

This paper develops an analytical framework for studying colonial investment from the perspective of neoclassical political economy. The distinguishing feature of colonial investment in this model is that the metropolitan government restricts the amount of investment in the colony in order to...

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Imperialism and economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa : an economic and business history of Sudan

Mollan, Simon - 2020

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Labor Productivity Growth and Industrialization in Africa

McMillan, Margaret Stokes; Zeufack, Albert G. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Manufacturing has made an important contribution to raising living standards in many parts of the world. Concerns about premature deindustrialization have made some observers skeptical about the potential for manufacturing to play this role in Africa. But employment in African manufacturing has...

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