Economic Growth and Development
and this, not good institutions, led to subsequent economic growth? Others have supported this alternative explanation with in-d ...
were subject to urban curfews that prevented their freedom to travel. Without checks the system gave absolute power to European ...
Civil service reforms began with the creation of an exam-based system in 1853 and culminated in the creation of the Indian Civil ...
Punjab considerable amounts of land were being taken over by moneylenders in lieu of mortgage defaults. This undermined the land ...
extracting agricultural resources for export. This process was so thorough that average grain consumption in India was lower in ...
a state with a predominantly Muslim population created inevitable tensions in the run-up to Indian independence, as the Hindu el ...
were highly centralized and manipulated to obtain the people’s consent. The Tswana state had clear rules stipulating how the chi ...
1994). The question of whether there is a causal link from the colonial to the Park state is complicated by the fact that betwee ...
relatively slow between 1918 and 1931, increasing rapidly only in the later 1930s. They also question the legacy of this for lon ...
‘Asiatic Mode of Production’ was, he claimed, stable but stagnant and had no internal progressive dynamic. Marx believed that Br ...
countries; in fact there wasrapid economic growth between the 1880s and Lenin argued that technological change would stagnate d ...
increasingly competitive. Warren argued that by the 1970s there were favourable prospects for capitalism in many developing coun ...
matches and edible oils (McCartney, 2011:42). A large number of developing countries after the 1960s built capacity in heavy ind ...
between 1868–69 and 1882–83, and above 20 per cent thereafter. This consti- tuted around 3 per cent of the national income of Br ...
losses were balanced by gains to consumers. By 1850 prices of ordinary cloth had declined by 80 per cent from their 1800 levels ...
(Tripathi and Jumani, 2007). During the first two decades of the twentieth century production in Indian textile mills increased ...
following contact the native Taino population of the island of Hispaniola (esti- mated population between 60,000 and 8 million) ...
the families who worked the lands owned by the mill owners. Discipline in the factory was severe and even extended to the conduc ...
Kenya, 36.0 per cent in Uganda, 31.7 per cent in Rwanda, 27.0 per cent in Vietnam and 20.9 per cent in Malawi (Docquier and Rapo ...
Chapter 10 Institutions Among economists such as Dani Rodrik and particularly economic historians such as Daren Acemoglu and Dou ...
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