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Historical origins of Brazilian relative backwardness.
- Source :
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Brazilian Journal of Political Economy / Revista de Economia Política . jan-mar2015, Vol. 35 Issue 1, p75-94. 20p. - Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- This paper relies on some data to identify the 19th century as the major period in which Brazil economy lagged behind some chosen benchmarking countries, as the USA, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and some European periphery countries. To identify the reasons for this an exercise using immigration data was used to make a decomposition of the sources of growth of the proportion of the USA per capita GDP to the Brazilian one. The results indicate that the imported human capital was responsible for 59% to 88% of this total growth between 1820 and 1900. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01013157
- Volume :
- 35
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Brazilian Journal of Political Economy / Revista de Economia PolĂtica
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 101197630
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1590/0101-31572015v35n01a05