The wealth of nations
Subtitle: fundamental forces versus poverty traps
By: David E. Bloom, David Canning, Jaypee Sevilla.
Contributors: Canning, David.; Sevilla, Jaypee.; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series ;; working paper  8714; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) ;; working paper no.  8714.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Income distribution -- Econometric models.; Economic development -- Econometric models.; Poverty -- Econometric models.
Description: "We test the view the large differences in income levels we see across the world are due to differences in underlying characteristics, i.e.  fundamental forces, against the alternative that there are poverty traps.  Taking geographical variables as fundamental characteristics, we find that we can reject fundamental forces in favor of a poverty trap model with high and low level equilibria.  The high level equilibrium state is found to be the same for all countries while income in the low level equilibrium, and the probability of being in the high level equilibrium, are greater in cool, coastal countries with high, year- round, rainfall"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
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