Long-run Causes of Comparative Development: An Interpretation of the Recent Evidence
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Keywords
comparative development; institutions; geography; colonialism; inequality; property rights; economic opportunity;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- O17 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Formal and Informal Sectors; Shadow Economy; Institutional Arrangements
- O43 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - Institutions and Growth
- N10 - Economic History - - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations - - - General, International, or Comparative
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