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plausibly exogenous source of variation in early industrialization across regions of nineteenth-century Prussia, capital …
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Although European economic history provides essentially no support for the view that education of the general population has a positive causal effect on economic growth, a recent paper by Becker, Hornung and Woessmann (Education and catch-up in the Industrial Revolution, 2011) claims that such...
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, and tubing) would promote industrialization and enhance value-add. In practice, however, unit prices have only been …
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This paper uses a historical setting to study when religion can be a barrier to the diffusion of knowledge and economic development, and through which mechanism. I focus on 19th-century Catholicism and analyze a crucial phase of modern economic growth, the Second Industrial Revolution...
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This paper traces the role of local content in Zambia's mining sector in supporting industrialization and economic … diversification. It assesses productive linkages and manufacturing competitiveness during import-substitution industrialization and … productivity and export competitiveness during import-substitution industrialization, that era was successful in terms of domestic …
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first part, we describe crucial dimensions of industrialization in the region - its extent, its historical trajectory, and …
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