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This paper documents industrial output and labor productivity growth around the poor periphery 1870-1940 (Latin America …, the European periphery, the Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia and East Asia). Intensive and extensive industrial … an early effort to identify the sources underlying the spread of the industrial revolution to the poor periphery …
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How effective are policies aimed at integrating isolated regions? We answer this question using the construction of a highway system in one of the poorest regions in the United States. With construction starting in 1965, the Appalachian Development Highway System (ADHS) ultimately consisted of...
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This paper documents industrial output growth around the poor periphery (Latin America, the European periphery, the …
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Most countries in the periphery specialized in the export of just a handful of primary products for most of their …. Additionally, both effects were asymmetric between Core and Periphery, findings that speak directly to the terms of trade debates …
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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 precocious poor periphery leaders underwent a surge and more poor …
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Over the last two decades in India there have been large increases in outsourced jobs and large increases in schooling rates, particularly in English. Existing evidence suggests the trends are broadly related. In this paper we explore how localized these impacts are; this has implications for...
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This paper addresses the complex relationship between geography and macroeconomic growth. We investigate the ways in which geography may matter directly for growth, controlling for economic policies and institutions, as well as the effects of geography on policy choices and institutions. We find...
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During the French Revolution, more than 100,000 individuals, predominantly supporters of the Old Regime, fled France. As a result, some areas experienced a significant change in the composition of the local elites whereas in others the pre-revolutionary social structure remained virtually...
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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...
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On average, the poor European periphery converged on the rich industrial core in the four or five decades prior to … globalization was by far the dominant force accounting for convergence (and divergence) around the periphery. Some exploited it well …
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