Bénétrix, Agustín; Kevin O’Rourke; Williamson, Jeffrey - In: Open Economies Review 26 (2015) 1, pp. 1-37
This paper documents industrial output growth around the poor periphery (Latin America, the European periphery, the Middle East and North Africa, Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa) between 1870 and 2007. We find that although the roots of rapid peripheral industrialization stretch into the late 19th...
