The claim of globalization critics that the income gap to industrial countries is bound to widen for essentially all … developing countries as a consequence of economic globalization is in conflict with empirical evidence. Economic performance … and foreign indebtedness which may explain the varying experience with globalization in regard to per capita income growth …

) a search for statistical evidence in the East of an “Early Globalization” comparable to the one ongoing in the West by … comparison to Western countries; 3) a discussion of the relevance of our findings for the debate on the Great Divergence. Our … (agents, policies, etc.) and with dissimilar effects on long-run economic growth; 3) the absence of an “Early Globalization …