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作者:CGIAR; International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); University of London; King's College London
摘要:This article investigates structural change in Argentina between 1935 and 1960, a period of rapid industrialization and of relative decline of the agricultural sector. We use a dynamic three-sector computable general equilibrium model of the period to analyze the effects of the policies of import-substituting industrialization (ISI), and changing factor endowments, on the structure of the economy. We find that the declining land-labor ratio was more important than ISI in explaining relative st...
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作者:University of Mannheim
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作者:University of Buenos Aires
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作者:Yale University
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作者:Occidental College
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作者:Paris School of Economics; University of Sussex; Stellenbosch University
摘要:The partition of German Togoland after World War I provides a natural experiment to test the impact of British and French colonization. Using data of recruits to the Ghanaian colonial army 1908-1955, we find that literacy and religious affiliation diverge at the border between the parts of Togoland under British and French control as early as in the 1920s. We partly attribute this to policies towards missionary schools. The divergence is only visible in the South where educational and evangeli...
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作者:La Trobe University; University of Melbourne
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作者:University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要:Since its publication in 1974, Andrew Watson's article The Arab Agricultural Revolution and Its Diffusion, 700-1100, has been used and cited widely by historians and archaeologists, many working in fields far removed from Watson's. This essay explores the nature of Watson's impact and attempts to explain it.
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作者:Northwestern University
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作者:Claremont Colleges; Scripps College