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Japan and the great divergence, 730-1870
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Gupta, Bishnupriya, Bassino, Jean-Pascal, Broadberry, S. N., Fukao, Kyoji and Takashima, Masanori (2011) Japan and the great divergence, 730-1870. Working Paper. London: London School of Economics. (Unpublished)
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Abstract
Japanese GDP per capita grew at an annual rate of 0.05 per cent between 730 and 1872. This growth was episodic, with a period of stagnation between 1280 and 1450, and substantially faster growth after 1750. Per capita incomes in Japan were around three quarters of the British level in the thirteenth century, but Britain forged further ahead with a surge of growth after the Black Death of the mid-14th century. Japan narrowed the gap between 1450 and 1650, but the gap widened again as British growth accelerated from the mid-17th century. By the Meiji Restoration, per capita incomes in Japan were around one-fifth of the British level. Japan’s GDP per capita was close to $400 in 1990 international prices during
the first millennium, but by the time of the Tokugawa period, Japan had already clearly emerged from bare bones subsistence.
Item Type: | Working or Discussion Paper (Working Paper) | ||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory | ||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||
Publisher: | London School of Economics | ||||
Place of Publication: | London | ||||
Official Date: | May 2011 | ||||
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Institution: | University of Warwick | ||||
Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Unpublished | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||
Funder: | Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation, Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, US National Science Foundation (NSF), Global COE Hi- Stat program (Japanese Ministry of Education), Collaborative Project HI-POD, “Global Price and Income History, 1200-1950” NSF project | ||||
Grant number: | 3652, 09/10-95, SSH7-CT-2008-225342, 34-3476-00-09-781-7700 |
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