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Financial Development and the Composition of Industrial Growth

Fisman, Raymond - 2003

We re-examine the role of financial market development in the intersectoral allocation of resources. Specifically, we propose the use of a new methodology that looks at the co-movement in growth rates across pairs of countries to examine the role of financial development in allowing firms to...

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Investing Japan : foreign capital, monetary standards, and economic development, 1859 - 2011

Bytheway, Simon James - 2014

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Industrial Catching Up in the Poor Periphery 1870-1975

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2011

This paper documents industrial output and labor productivity growth around the poor periphery 1870-1975 (Latin America, the European periphery, the Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia and East Asia). Intensive and extensive industrial growth accelerated there over this critical century. The...

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Knowledge, Human Capital and Economic Development : Evidence from the British Industrial Revolution, 1750-1930

Khan, B. Zorina - 2015

of early British industrialization supports the thesis that economic advances depend on specialized scientific training … British industrialization, by assessing the backgrounds, education and inventive activity of the major contributors to …

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Is Industrialization Conducive to Long-Run Prosperity?

Franck, Raphaël - 2015

This research explores the long-run effect of industrialization on the process of development. In contrast to … the French industrial revolution, the research establishes that regions in which industrialization was more intensive …. Nevertheless, intensive industrialization has had an adverse effect on income per capita, employment and equality by the turn of …

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Beyond Balanced Growth. Economic Development; Industrialization

Kongsamut, Piyabha P.; Rebelo, Sergio T.; Xie, Danyang - 1998

One of the most striking regularities of the growth process is the massive reallocation of labor from agriculture into industry and services. Balanced growth models are commonly used in macroeconomics because they are consistent with the well-known Kaldor facts about economic growth. These...

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