Industrialization and growth: threshold effects of technological integration

Carlos Ortiz, Javier Castro and Erika Badillo Enciso

Revista Cuadernos de Economia, 2009

Abstract: Countries enjoy the benefits of industrialization for economic growth after surpassing a certainthreshold of technological integration in manufacturing. Some available data do not reject thishypothesis. This feature of development is consistent with the observed gaps in long-run growthrates between rich and poor economies.

Keywords: threshold of technological integration; industrialization; growth divergence; education. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F43 L16 L60 O11 O14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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