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Africa
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Nigeria
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Reversal of Fortunes
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African economic history
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Afrika
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Christian Missions
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Emirates of Northern Nigeria
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Fertility
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Fertilität
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Great Divergence
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Indirect Rule
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Japan started at a lower level of per capita income than the North Sea Area and grew at a slower rate
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Missions
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This paper “accounts” for the Great Divergence between Europe and Asia in two ways. In the sense of measurement: (1) the traditional view
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Wealth
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but not in the rest of Eurasia (2) The new trade routes which opened up from Europe to Asia and the Americas around 1500
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capital-intensive
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colonial impact
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explanation
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in which the Great Divergence had late medieval origins and was already well under way during the early modern period
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institutional reversal
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is confirmed (2) However
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living standards
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measurement
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non-human-energy intensive production. (2) Late marriage in the North Sea Area
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population persistence
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reversal of fortunes
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revisionists are correct to point to regional variation within both continents (3) There was a Little Divergence within Europe
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settler economy
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so continued to fall behind until after the Meiji Restoration of 1868. Any explanation needs to be able to account for the Little Divergences within Europe and Asia as well as the Great Divergence between the two continents. The divergences arose from the differential impact of shocks hitting economies with different structural features. The structural factors include: (1) The large share of pastoral farming in agriculture which helped to put the North Sea Area on the path to high-value-added
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traditional leaders
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which led to a permanent per capita income gain in the North Sea Area
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which lowered fertility and encouraged human capital formation (3) Labour supply
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with Japan overtaking China and India. However
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with a reversal of fortunes between the North Sea Area and Mediterranean Europe. (4) There was a Little Divergence within Asia
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Missions and heterogeneous social change : evidence from border discontinuities in the Emirates of Nigeria
Okoye, Dozie
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Pongou, Roland
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2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012651370
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The Great Divergence in South Africa: Population and Wealth Dynamics over two Centuries
von Fintel, Dieter
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Fourie, Johan
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2019
South Africa experienced a
reversal
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fortunes
after the arrival of European settlers in the eastern half of the country …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012624396
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Historical Missionary Activity, Schooling, and the
Reversal
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: Evidence from Nigeria
Okoye, Dozie
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Pongou, Roland
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Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, …
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2014
to a
reversal
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wherein historically richer ethnic groups are poorer today. Combining contemporary individual …
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ACCOUNTING FOR THE GREAT DIVERGENCE
Broadberry, Stephen
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Department of Economics, University of Warwick
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2013
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