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Title: Contributions to the discussion on the determinants of long-term human capital development in today’s developing regions
Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis
Publication Year: 2013
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Abstract: Explaining the causes of unequal global distribution of wealth today is a major task economists and economic historians are still struggling with. Although a lot of empirical evidence has been added in recent decades, the lively and controversial debate on which factor matters more for a positive economic development is still going on. The fact that history plays an essential role is hardly challenged anymore; however, as Nunn (2009:88) states, “less well understood are the exact channels of causality through which history matters.” Broadly speaking, one can distinguish two main strands of explaining the long term economic growth performance of countries. The one strand considers factors that were determined already long time ago as profound sources of today’s wealth, for example geographical environment, climate, factor endowment etc. In contrast, the proponents of the other strand do not take the development as determined from early-on . . .
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Authors: Prayon, Charlotte
Institution: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Department: Economics and Social Sciences
Advisor: Josef Schmid
Degree: PhD
Publisher Location: Tübingen
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Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other
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