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Recovery and Sustainability in East Asia
Park, Yung Chul - 2001
This paper analyzes the macroeconomic adjustment from the crisis in East Asia in a broad international prospective. The stylized pattern from the previous 160 currency crisis episodes over the period from 1970 to 1995 shows a V-type adjustment of real GDP growth in the years prior to and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470347
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Was an Industrial Revolution Inevitable? Economic Growth Over the Very Long Run
Jones, Charles I. - 1999
This paper studies a growth model that is able to match several key facts of economic history. For thousands of years, the average standard of living seems to have risen very little, despite increases in the level of technology and large increases in the level of the population. Then, after...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471409
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Global Income Divergence, Trade and Industrializatiion : The Geography of Growth Take-Offs
Baldwin, Richard E. - 1998
phenomena - the industrialization and growth take-off of rich northern' nations, massive global income divergence, and rapid …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472347
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The Tyranny of Numbers : Confronting the Statistical Realities of the East Asian Growth Experience
Young, Alwyn - 1994
This paper documents the fundamental role played by factor accumulation in explaining the extraordinary postwar growth of Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan. Participation rates, educational levels and (with the exception of Hong Kong) investment rates have risen rapidly in all four...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474252
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Princes and Merchants : European City Growth before the Industrial Revolution
De Long, J. Bradford - 1993
As measured by the pace of city growth in western Europe from 1000 to 1800. absolutist monarchs stunted the growth of commerce and industry. A region ruled by an absolutist prince saw its total urban population shrink by one hundred thousand people per century relative to a region without...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474688
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Inventive Activity in Early Industrial America : Evidence From Patent Records, 1790 - 1846
Sokoloff, Kenneth L. - 1988
activity was positively related to the growth of markets during early industrialization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012476354
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Trade, Technology, and the Great Divergence
O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj - 2019
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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Openness to Trade and the Spread of Industrialization : Evidence from Canada during the First Era of Globalization
Jaworski, Taylor - 2020
industrialization in the second half of the nineteenth century. We find that industries and regions more exposed to international trade … controlling for these factors, we find that greater exposure to globalization shaped the pattern of regional industrialization in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481264
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Globalization and the Great Divergence : Terms of Trade Booms and Volatility in the Poor Periphery 1782-1913
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2008
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464805
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Trade and the Diffusion of the Industrial Revolution
Lucas, Robert E, Jr - 2007
A model is proposed to describe the evolution of real GDPs in the world economy that is intended to apply to all open economies. The five parameters of the model are calibrated using the Sachs-Warner definition of openness and time-series and cross-section data on incomes and other variables...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465364