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This book describes struggles of different countries and their development after World War II. It presents a panorama of different ideologies of accelerated development, which dominated the world just before the war and in the next 40 years. The author explains why in the 1970s global and local...
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The interpretation of the reasons for the successes and delays in the race for industrialization is still a fundamental … and endogenous factors in the historiography on different case studies and paths of industrialization; Eurocentrism …/ethnocentrism in the approaches to the history of industrialization; and the debate on the roots of the supposed "victory" of the …
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State directed industrialization in developing countries became a common strategy after World War II. The success of a … industrialization. This paper focuses on a country which has experienced above average rates of industrialization but has not been … been conducive to industrialization. Moreover, industrialization outcomes did not depend on a single or a specific set of …
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This open access handbook, Ten Crises systematically traces the economic history of China from 1949 to 2020, unravelling the complex domestic and global factors leading to the cyclical crises identified by WEN and his research team, and examining the corresponding counteracting policies and...
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This book examines welfare effects of gender-related inequalities in Korean households and labor markets. It uses subjective well-being data to show that reductions of excessive levels of working hours did improve family well-being in the past decade. Moreover, benefits from major life events...
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Physical height is an important economic variable reflecting health and human capital. Puzzlingly, however, differences in average height across developing countries are not well explained by differences in wealth. In particular, children in India are shorter, on average, than children in Africa...
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Do household consumption-smoothing strategies in poor countries entail significant long-run costs in terms of reduced human capital? This paper exploits the timing of monsoon rainfall shocks and the seasonal nature of agriculture to isolate income effects on early childhood anthropometric...
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This article evaluates the impact of a large cash transfer program in South Africa on children's nutritional status and investigates whether the gender of the recipient affects that impact. In the early 1990s the benefits and coverage of the South African social pension program were expanded for...
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