The Spread of Manufacturing to the Periphery 1870-2007: Eight Stylized Facts

Agustín S. Bénétrix, Kevin H. O'Rourke, Jeffrey G. Williamson

NBER Working Paper No. 18221
Issued in July 2012
NBER Program(s):   DAE

This paper documents industrial output growth around the poor periphery ( Latin America, the European periphery, the Middle East and North Africa, Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa] between 1870 and 2007. We provide answers to the following questions: When and where did rapid industrial growth begin in the periphery? When and where did peripheral growth rates exceed those in the industrial core? When was the high-point of peripheral industrial growth? When and where did it become widespread? When was the high-point of peripheral convergence on the core? How variable was the growth experience between countries? And how persistent was peripheral industrial growth?

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