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We examine the diffusion of steam technology across British counties during the eighteenth century. First, we provide new estimates for the regional variations in the timing, pace and extent of usage of steam engines. Our main data source is an updated version of the list of steam engines...
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Recent work has documented industrial output growth around the poor periphery from 1870 to the present, finding unconditional convergence on the leaders long before the modern BRICS and even before the Asian Tigers. The Philippines was very much part of that catching up. In the decade or so up...
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It is often assumed that recent success in the high-technology software industry will lead India's development. However, evidence suggests that basic manufacturing industry is stagnant. This paper proposes a mechanism that ties these two trends together. A big-push type of model, featuring...
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, growth, and industrialization. It is shown that the counterfactual prediction of new growth theories regarding a positive … process of industrialization, trade policy can influence long-run growth rates even in non-scale growth models. …
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Successful economic development is usually characterized by two salient phenomena: industrialization and demographic …
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industrialization itself. We find that basic education significantly accelerated non-textile industrialization in both phases of the …
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industrialization itself. We find that basic education significantly accelerated non-textile industrialization in both phases of the …
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Industrialization occupies a central place in the rich tapestry of development theory and practice. Although that place … income per capita can only occur through industrialization. This paper argues that it is becoming increasingly difficult for … most developing countries to achieve rapid growth through industrialization, and especially through export oriented …
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typically linked to industrialization enhance the attractiveness of a location and result to population increases. The inverse … seek better forts. Iligan City experienced rapid urbanization for almost five decades due to industrialization. However …
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decline have fallen as obviously. These results are consistent with the idea that industrialization in employment terms has … been more important for eventual prosperity than has industrialization in output terms; and that high manufacturing … industrialization may have become more difficult. …
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