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History without evidence : Latin American inequality since 1491
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2009
Most analysts of the modern Latin American economy hold to a pessimistic belief in historical persistence -- they believe that Latin America has always had very high levels of inequality, suggesting it will be hard for modern social policy to create a more egalitarian society. This paper argues...
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[Rezension von: Engerman, Stanley L.; Sokoloff, Kenneth Lee, Economic development in the Americas since 1500, endowments and institutions]
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - In: Journal of economic literature 50 (2012) 3, pp. 809-818
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Lost decades : postindependence performance in Latin America and Africa
Bates, Robert H.; Coatsworth, John H.; Williamson, … - In: The journal of economic history 67 (2007) 4, pp. 917-943
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Lost decades : lessons from post-independence Latin America for today's Africa
Bates, Robert H.; Coatsworth, John H.; Williamson, … - 2006
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Lost decades : lessons from post-independence Latin America for today's Africa
Bates, Robert H.; Coatsworth, John H.; Williamson, … - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003388181
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Lost Decades : Lessons from Post-Independence Latin America for Today's Africa
Bates, Robert H. - 2006
Africa and Latin America secured their independence from European colonial rule a century and half apart: most of Latin America after 1820 and most of Africa after 1960. Despite the distance in time and space, they share important similarities. In each case independence was followed by political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466051
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Lost Decades : Lessons from Post-Independence Latin America for Today's Africa
Bates, Robert - 2007
Africa and Latin America secured their independence from European colonial rule a century and half apart: most of Latin America after 1820 and most of Africa after 1960. Despite the distance in time and space, they share important similarities. In each case independence was followed by political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012778235
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From commodity booms to economic miracles: Why Southeast Asian industry lagged behind
Bassino, Jean-Pascal; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2015
industrial catching up until after World War II. Before the 1950s, Southeast Asian manufacturing hardly grew at all: while … commodity export processing did grow fast, import-competing manufacturing and manufacturing for local consumption did not …-led manufacturing growth success story after the 1960s while it did not in Latin America, the Middle East, or South Asia? In seeking …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335583
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From commodity booms to economic miracles : why Southeast Asian industry lagged behind
Bassino, Jean-Pascal; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2015
industrial catching up until after World War II. Before the 1950s, Southeast Asian manufacturing hardly grew at all: while … commodity export processing did grow fast, import-competing manufacturing and manufacturing for local consumption did not …-led manufacturing growth success story after the 1960s while it did not in Latin America, the Middle East, or South Asia? In seeking …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010530526
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Trade and Poverty: When the Third World Fell Behind
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - The MIT Press
Today's wide economic gap between the postindustrial countries of the West and the poorer countries of the third world is not new. Fifty years ago, the world economic order--two hundred years in the making--was already characterized by a vast difference in per capita income between rich and poor...
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