The Spread of Manufacturing to the Periphery 1870-2007: Eight Stylized Facts

Agustín Bénétrix, Kevin O’Rourke (kevin.orourke@all-souls.ox.ac.uk) and Jeffrey Williamson (jwilliam@fas.harvard.edu)
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Kevin O’Rourke: Oxford University
Jeffrey Williamson: University of Wisconsin
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Kevin Hjortshøj O'Rourke

No 21, Working Papers from European Historical Economics Society (EHES)

Abstract: This paper documents industrial output growth around the poor periphery (Latin America, the European periphery, the Middle East and North Africa, Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa) between 1870 and 2007. We provide answers to the following questions: When and where did rapid industrial growth begin in the periphery? When and where did peripheral growth rates exceed those in the industrial core? When was the high-point of peripheral industrial growth? When and where did it become widespread? When was the high-point of peripheral convergence on the core? How variable was the growth experience between countries? And how persistent was peripheral industrial growth?

JEL-codes: F1 N7 O2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 92 pages
Date: 2012-07
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