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There are two contrasting views of pre-19th century trade and globalization. First, there are the world history … scholars like Andre Gunder Frank who attach globalization 'big bang' significance to the dates 1492 (Christopher Colombus …
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This paper investigates the impact of stock markets and banks on economic growth using a panel data set for the period …
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The world has seen two globalization booms over the past two centuries, and one bust. The first global century ended … globalization on commodity price structure, the causes of protection, the impact of world migration on poverty eradication, and the …
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globalization has raised inequality between nations, but that it has had no clear effect on inequality within nations. This paper … argues that the likely impact of globalization on world inequality has been very different from what these simple … correlations suggest. Globalization probably mitigated rising inequality between participating nations. The nations that gained the …
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The late 19th and the late 20th century shared more than simply globalization and convergence. Globalization also seems … Borjas and Wood think that globalization accounted for something like a third to a half of the rise in inequality in America … more than a half of the falling inequality in Europe. It also appears that the inequality trends which globalization …
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Klaus Deininger and Lyn Squire have recently produced an inequality data base for a panel of countries from the 1960s … cohort size effect; the so-called Kuznets Curve or demand effects; and the commitment to globalization or policy effects. We …
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"Is inequality largely the result of the Industrial Revolution? Or, were pre-industrial incomes and life expectancies as unequal as they are today? For want of sufficient data, these questions have not yet been answered. This paper infers inequality for 14 ancient, pre-industrial societies using...
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"While substantial research finds that financial development boosts overall economic growth, we study whether financial development disproportionately raises the incomes of the poor and alleviates poverty. Using a broad cross-country sample, we distinguish among competing theoretical predictions...
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Is inequality largely the result of the Industrial Revolution? Or, were pre-industrial incomes and life expectancies as unequal as they are today? For want of sufficient data, these questions have not yet been answered. This paper infers inequality for 14 ancient, pre-industrial societies using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465096
This paper explores the relationship between the relative size of the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) sector, economic growth, and poverty alleviation using a new database on the share of SME labor in the total manufacturing labor force. Using a sample of 45 countries, we find a strong,...
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