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Before the Great Divergence? Comparing the Yangzi Delta and the Netherlands at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century

Li, Bozhong, van Zanden, Jan Luiten·2012·The Journal of Economic History
DOI 10.1017/s0022050712000654
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This article tests recent ideas about the long-term economic development of China compared with Europe on the basis of a detailed comparison of structure and level of GDP in part of the Yangzi delta and the Netherlands in the 1820s. We find that Dutch GDP per capita was almost twice as high as in the Yangzi delta. Agricultural productivity there was at about the same level as in the Netherlands (and England), but large productivity gaps existed in industry and services. We attempt to explain this concluding that differences in factor costs are probably behind disparities in labor productivity.

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Authors
Li, B., & van Zanden, J. L.
Venue
The Journal of Economic History
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Published
2012-12-14
Volume
72
Issue
4
Pages
956-989
ISSN
  • 0022-0507
  • 1471-6372
DOI
10.1017/s0022050712000654
Cited by
75
References
1
Language
en
Licence
www.cambridge.org/core/terms (unspecified)

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