Asia’s Little Divergence: State Capacity in China and Japan before 1850
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- Tuan-Hwee Sng & Chiaki Moriguchi, 2014. "Asia’s little divergence: state capacity in China and Japan before 1850," Journal of Economic Growth, Springer, vol. 19(4), pages 439-470, December.
- Sng, Tuan-Hwee & Moriguchi, Chiaki, 2014. "Asia's Little Divergence: State Capacity in China and Japan before 1850," PRIMCED Discussion Paper Series 58, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University.
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Keywords
Comparative Institutional Analysis; Geography; Principal-Agent Problem; Institutions and Growth;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D73 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Bureaucracy; Administrative Processes in Public Organizations; Corruption
- N15 - Economic History - - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations - - - Asia including Middle East
- N40 - Economic History - - Government, War, Law, International Relations, and Regulation - - - General, International, or Comparative
- O43 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - Institutions and Growth
- P52 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Comparative Economic Systems - - - Comparative Studies of Particular Economies
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-GRO-2014-10-03 (Economic Growth)
- NEP-HIS-2014-10-03 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
- NEP-PBE-2014-10-03 (Public Economics)
- NEP-SEA-2014-10-03 (South East Asia)
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