Economic Growth and Development
Subsistence agriculture in developing countries, for example, may utilize a lot of (family) labour on a small plot of land with ...
governments seem to want more of it, and its causes are so evident, why does any country experience extended spells of slow econ ...
different countries for the years 1960 to 1985 to run a cross-country growth regression. A growth regression can be thought of a ...
that policy-makers could compare the strength and reliability of the link between various policy factors and economic growth, wa ...
‘uneven development’ and was ‘the “original sin” that began the partition between the rich and poor regions’ (Darity, 1992:166). ...
11,000BC; Max Weber’s focus on the Protestant religion in Europe after ca.1520; Daren Acemoglu’s and others stress on proximity ...
Third, in the late 1950s there was deep unease in the developed world. Two of its leading military powers (Britain and France) h ...
siphon off resources created by economic growth through taxation and use them to provide free or subsidised developmentally nice ...
and ascertain the place of origin of slaves from Africa to test whether there had been long-term effects on growth and developme ...
economy (what statisticians refer to as an appropriate weight). The big prob- lem with eighteenth-century Britain is the spectac ...
Some argue that this ‘mobility’ was driven by the ‘enclosure movement’, the forcible eviction of people from the land by landlor ...
calculating productivity is inappropriate for a period of revolutionary indus- trial change that included changes in science, ec ...
representation of business and merchant interests) in the English Civil War of the 1640s and again in the Glorious Revolution of ...
More generally right up until the 1930s the developed world as a whole was a net exporter of energy, which in the 1880s included ...
England was largely free from these threats. England has been portrayed as a country long very open to goods, ideas, migration a ...
PART I The Proximate Sources of Growth in the Modern World Economy since 1950 Economic growth – or the lack of it – happens as a ...
in 2005/06? Why was growth in South Korea sustained at levels of 7–8 per cent while growth in India was little more than 3.5 per ...
Chapter 1 Thinking about Growth When we have numbers we can quantify things and compare them. In the 1960s growth in South Korea ...
There are three ways of calculating GDP. First, the total value of output: Value of ice creams + Value of computers + Value of a ...
increases in the nominalvalue of output: higher prices of ice creams increase the value of output. Statisticians make adjustment ...
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