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| Author: | Chanda, A. Putterman, L. |
| Title: | Early starts, reversals and catch-up in the process of economic development |
| Journal: | Scandinavian Journal of Economics
2007 : VOL. 109:2, p. 387-413 |
| Index terms: | economic development economic growth economic history institutions geography Asia |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | In recent decades, states like China and India have been experiencing more rapid economic growth. It is shown that more rapid growth by early starters has been the norm in economic history, and that the "reversal of fortune" associated with the European overseas expansion was exceptional and temporary etc. |
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