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Political economy of development in the Arab republics: The state and socio-economic coalitions 阿拉伯共和国发展的政治经济:国家和社会经济联盟
IF 0.5 Q1 HISTORY Pub Date : 2023-05-25 DOI: 10.1080/20780389.2023.2209285
Shimaa Hatab
ABSTRACT The question of socio-economic underdevelopment in the Arab region has been a perennial theme in development studies. While some scholars highlight the long durée effect of the Ottoman institutional legacy, others place the blame on the legacy of exploitation and expropriation of the colonial practices in the region. The article reaches beyond the two accounts (albeit departing from the colonial economic basis) and brings out the agency of the post-colonial elites who altered the socio-economic foundation of the political class and transformed processes of capital accumulation and labour commodification. I argue that the processes of state-building accompanied by social engineering measures represented a ‘critical juncture’ that impinged on state autonomy and its bureaucratic capacity and left an indelible imprint on development strategies. The article unpacks three mechanisms that proved consequential for economic policy outcomes: (1) the degree of elite autonomy to formulate policies, (2) the power of social classes to contest economic policies, and (3) the capacity of state bureaucracy to implement policies and allocate resources. A critical political economy perspective, that reaches beyond the reification of the state and examines the interaction between ‘elite deals’ and ‘social bargains’, offers a nuanced account for varied development records across the region.
阿拉伯地区的社会经济不发达问题一直是发展研究的一个主题。虽然一些学者强调了奥斯曼制度遗产的长期影响,但另一些学者则将责任归咎于该地区殖民做法的剥削和征用。这篇文章超越了这两种说法(尽管脱离了殖民地的经济基础),揭示了后殖民精英的能动性,他们改变了政治阶层的社会经济基础,改变了资本积累和劳动力商品化的过程。我认为,伴随着社会工程措施的国家建设过程代表了一个“关键时刻”,它影响了国家自治及其官僚能力,并在发展战略中留下了不可磨灭的印记。文章揭示了三种对经济政策结果具有重要影响的机制:(1)精英制定政策的自主权程度,(2)社会阶层竞争经济政策的权力,以及(3)国家官僚机构执行政策和分配资源的能力。一个批判性的政治经济学视角,超越了国家的具体化,考察了“精英交易”和“社会交易”之间的互动,为该地区不同的发展记录提供了微妙的解释。
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Manufacturing convergence in the Southern Cone: New evidence for the industrialization period 南锥体制造业趋同:工业化时期的新证据
IF 0.5 Q1 HISTORY Pub Date : 2023-04-21 DOI: 10.1080/20780389.2023.2176842
Cecilia Lara
ABSTRACT The objective of this paper is, on the basis of new evidence, to contribute to the analysis of the performance of the manufacturing industries in Brazil, Chile, and Uruguay during the state-led industrialization period and in comparison with a developed country. Specifically, this paper estimates the productivity gap between Brazil, Chile, and Uruguay relative to the United States in order to reveal whether convergence took place at the industry level. The results identify changes within the industrial sector in the three Latin American countries. In short, manufacturing in Brazil achieved substantial changes, which were reflected in favourable structural change and manufacturing convergence. Moreover, manufacturing convergence accelerated in Brazil in the 1960s, when the development model based on industrialization deepened. Structural transformation was weak in Uruguay and mild in Chile, and the ability to reduce technological gaps was limited to industries based on natural resources with medium and high levels of industrial protection. The latter must also be linked to the different pace of industrialization in these two countries, especially in Uruguay, where the industrializing impulse was exhausted very early on.
本文的目的是在新的证据的基础上,对巴西、智利和乌拉圭在国家主导的工业化时期的制造业绩效进行分析,并与发达国家进行比较。具体而言,本文估计了巴西、智利和乌拉圭相对于美国的生产率差距,以揭示趋同是否发生在产业层面。结果确定了三个拉丁美洲国家工业部门的变化。总之,巴西制造业实现了实质性的变化,这体现在有利的结构变化和制造业趋同上。此外,20世纪60年代,巴西制造业趋同加速,以工业化为基础的发展模式不断深化。乌拉圭和智利的结构转型都很弱,缩小技术差距的能力仅限于以自然资源为基础的工业,这些工业受到中等和高度的保护。后者还必须与这两个国家工业化的不同速度联系起来,特别是乌拉圭,该国的工业化动力很早就耗尽了。
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Top incomes and the ruling class in Latin American history. Some theoretical and methodological challenges 拉丁美洲历史上的最高收入和统治阶级。一些理论和方法上的挑战
IF 0.5 Q1 HISTORY Pub Date : 2023-03-30 DOI: 10.1080/20780389.2023.2188438
Javier E. Rodríguez Weber
ABSTRACT Recent studies on income inequality have some characteristics that differentiate them from their earlier counterparts. The spotlight on high incomes has illuminated a new angle from which to view income inequality. Because estimates of top income shares can be used as a proxy for power inequality, they can enrich our comprehension of the role of the elite in Latin America’s economic development. However, scholars interested in studying the history of economic inequality in Latin America face certain methodological and theoretical problems of their own: (1) because food and other commodities such as minerals represent the lion’s share of exported goods in Latin America, cycles in commodity prices have shaped the region’s economic history. Thus, the crux of income inequality in Latin America is who becomes richer and who becomes poorer when exports prices rise and fall; and (2) the sort of fiscal statistics typically used capture only a few countries and sometimes only limited periods. Thus, as I argue, scholars should use dynamic social tables to produce new information. I exemplify both points with a historical analysis of three Latin American countries: Chile, Colombia, and Argentina.
摘要最近关于收入不平等的研究具有一些与早期研究不同的特点。高收入的聚光灯照亮了人们看待收入不平等的新角度。因为对最高收入份额的估计可以用来衡量权力不平等,它们可以丰富我们对精英在拉丁美洲经济发展中作用的理解。然而,有兴趣研究拉丁美洲经济不平等历史的学者也面临着某些方法论和理论问题:(1)由于食品和矿产等其他商品在拉丁美洲出口商品中占很大份额,商品价格的周期塑造了该地区的经济史。因此,拉丁美洲收入不平等的关键在于,当出口价格上涨和下跌时,谁会变得更富有,谁会变穷;以及(2)通常使用的财政统计数据只涵盖少数国家,有时只涵盖有限的时期。因此,正如我所说,学者应该使用动态的社会表来产生新的信息。我通过对智利、哥伦比亚和阿根廷这三个拉丁美洲国家的历史分析来举例说明这两点。
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On Polish economic historiography in exile, 1945–1989 流亡中的波兰经济史研究,1945-1989
IF 0.5 Q1 HISTORY Pub Date : 2023-03-27 DOI: 10.1080/20780389.2023.2179458
Damian Bębnowski
ABSTRACT This paper studies the main directions of development of Polish economic historiography in the country and in exile (in Great Britain and the United States) between 1945 and 1989. The analysis focuses on Polish economic history under various conditions (especially political ones) and the characteristics of selected research in exile (by Stanisław Swianiewicz, Władysław Wielhorski, Paweł Zaremba, Piotr Wojtowicz, Alfred Zauberman, Stanisław Kościałkowski, and Feliks Gross). The current literature focuses on the achievements of researchers in the country, while exile economic historiography is still marginalized. I analyse representative works of Polish researchers, comparing their issues and the methods used. It turns out that home economic historiography flourished, even under ideological constraints.
摘要本文研究了1945年至1989年间波兰经济史学在国内和流亡海外(英国和美国)的主要发展方向。分析的重点是不同条件下的波兰经济史(尤其是政治条件下),以及流亡研究的特点(作者:Stanisław Swianiewicz、Wł。目前的文献主要关注该国研究人员的成就,而流亡经济史学仍处于边缘地位。我分析了波兰研究人员的代表作,比较了他们的问题和使用的方法。事实证明,即使在意识形态的制约下,国内经济史学也蓬勃发展。
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Living standards of copper mine labour in Chile and the Central African Copperbelt compared, 1920s to 1960s 20世纪20年代至60年代,智利和中非铜带铜矿工人的生活水平比较
IF 0.5 Q1 HISTORY Pub Date : 2023-02-10 DOI: 10.1080/20780389.2022.2150162
D. Juif, Sergio Garrido
ABSTRACT Large-scale copper mining has been the main industry in Chile and the countries conforming the Central African Copperbelt for about one century. While a relatively extensive social science literature exists on the mostly adverse macroeconomic and institutional effects of a high reliance on mineral exports and revenues, we address the effects on the labour force employed by this industry. We perform a novel inter-continental – as well as dynamic-historical – comparative assessment of the living standards of the domestic copper mineworkers in the three countries from ca1920 to ca1960. There are important similarities and disparities in levels and trends of real wages and other welfare provisions. In explaining the gap across continents, we discuss labour shortage and labour provision, productivity, and mobilization. We also highlight the underlying role of colonialism in determining the inter-continental differences. Copper miners are further found to have been better paid than other workers in all three countries.
一个世纪以来,大规模铜矿开采一直是智利和中非铜带沿线国家的主要产业。虽然存在相对广泛的社会科学文献,论述了高度依赖矿产出口和收入对宏观经济和制度的主要不利影响,但我们讨论了对该行业劳动力的影响。我们对1920年左右至1960年左右这三个国家的国内铜矿工人的生活水平进行了一项新颖的洲际以及动态的历史比较评估。实际工资和其他福利规定的水平和趋势有着重要的相似之处和差异。在解释各大洲之间的差距时,我们讨论了劳动力短缺和劳动力供应、生产力和动员。我们还强调殖民主义在决定大陆间差异方面的根本作用。进一步发现,在这三个国家,铜矿工人的工资都比其他工人高。
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Historical African ethnic class stratification systems and intergenerational transmission of education 历史上的非洲民族阶级分层制度与教育的代际传递
IF 0.5 Q1 HISTORY Pub Date : 2022-09-20 DOI: 10.1080/20780389.2022.2106211
Patricia Funjika
ABSTRACT This paper examines the role of precolonial class inequality systems in the intergenerational transmission of education processes amongst ethnic groups in Africa. Using ethnographic and household survey data from six African countries and grouping ethnic groups by the historical class system that existed within them, I observe variations in intergenerational persistence between them with varying levels of significance in the different countries included. The findings suggest that understanding intergenerational mobility within African countries should take into account the different historical ethnic group characteristics, although the mobility process does not evolve uniformly across countries. Country-specific colonial administrative systems and the immediate post-independence education policies are critical factors that also need to be taken into account to understand the changes in education-based intergenerational persistence from the precolonial to the contemporary period.
摘要本文研究了殖民前阶级不平等制度在非洲少数民族教育过程代际传递中的作用。利用来自六个非洲国家的民族志和家庭调查数据,并根据其内部存在的历史阶级制度对种族群体进行分组,我观察到他们之间代际持续性的差异,在不同国家具有不同程度的重要性。研究结果表明,理解非洲国家内部的代际流动应该考虑到不同的历史民族特征,尽管流动过程在各国之间并不一致。具体国家的殖民地行政制度和独立后的直接教育政策是关键因素,也需要考虑这些因素,以了解从殖民前到当代基于教育的代际持久性的变化。
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Historical Christian missions and African societies today: Perspectives from economic history 基督教历史使命与当今非洲社会:经济史视角
IF 0.5 Q1 HISTORY Pub Date : 2022-09-02 DOI: 10.1080/20780389.2022.2103306
Dozie Okoye
ABSTRACT Christian missionaries spread across the African continent in the early twentieth century following the expansion of colonial control, and invested in various areas of African societies in order to gain converts. This paper describes the recent literature in economic history that attempts to document and estimate the long-run impacts of Christian missions, including outstanding issues in the literature. The paper summarizes recent studies that attempt to tackle these issues. One conclusion is that more micro data is needed on the evolution of African societies as a result of missionary activities in order to fully document the mechanisms behind the long-run impact of missions.
二十世纪初,随着殖民统治的扩张,基督教传教士遍布非洲大陆,并在非洲社会的各个领域进行投资,以获得皈依者。本文描述了经济史上最近的文献,这些文献试图记录和估计基督教传教的长期影响,包括文献中的突出问题。本文总结了最近试图解决这些问题的研究。一个结论是,需要更多的微观数据来说明传教活动对非洲社会的影响,以便充分记录传教的长期影响背后的机制。
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The development of the arid tropics: Lessons for economic history 干旱热带地区的发展:经济史的教训
IF 0.5 Q1 HISTORY Pub Date : 2022-08-11 DOI: 10.1080/20780389.2022.2099371
Tirthankar Roy
ABSTRACT For centuries, the world’s tropical regions have been poorer than the temperate-zone countries. Does tropicality make the struggle for economic development harder? What do people caught up in the struggle do? The paper defines ‘tropicality’ as the combination of aridity and seasonal rainfall, and in turn, high inter- and intra-year variability in moisture influx. In the past, this condition would generate a variety of adaptive strategies such as migration and transhumance. In the twentieth century, the response pattern changed from adapting to moisture supply towards control of moisture supply. This process unleashed conflict and environmental stress in the vulnerable geography of the semi-arid tropics.
几个世纪以来,世界上的热带地区一直比温带国家贫穷。热带是否使经济发展更加困难?陷入困境的人们会怎么做?这篇论文将“热带性”定义为干旱和季节性降雨的结合,以及水分流入的年际和年内高变异性。在过去,这种情况会产生各种适应策略,如迁移和迁移。20世纪以来,气候响应模式由适应供水量向控制供水量转变。这一进程在半干旱的热带脆弱地区释放了冲突和环境压力。
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Wealth inequality in interwar Poland 两次世界大战之间波兰的财富不平等
IF 0.5 Q1 HISTORY Pub Date : 2022-07-01 DOI: 10.1080/20780389.2022.2082407
M. Wroński
ABSTRACT In 1923 Poland introduced an extraordinary wealth tax. I have used internal statistics of the Ministry of the Treasury to estimate wealth inequality in interwar Poland. This data source was not previously used by researchers. There are no estimates of wealth inequality in interwar Poland available in the literature. According to my estimates, the top 0.01% of wealth owners controlled 14.8% of total private wealth. The wealth share of the top 1% stood at 37.5%. The top decile owned 60.7% of total private wealth. Wealth inequality varied strongly by region. A comparison of wealth inequality in Poland with wealth inequality in other European countries in the interwar period yields a diverse picture. The wealth share of the top 0.01% was the highest in Europe, the wealth share of the top 1% was in the middle of the European ranking, and the wealth share of the top 10% was almost the lowest in Europe. The small elite of super-rich (0.01%) controlled a higher share of national wealth than their European peers, but the wealth share of the rest of the top decile was relatively low. The unequal development of former partitions may partially explain the very high top wealth shares.
摘要1923年,波兰推出了一项非同寻常的财富税。我使用财政部的内部统计数据来估计两次世界大战期间波兰的财富不平等。研究人员以前没有使用过这个数据源。文献中没有关于两次世界大战期间波兰财富不平等的估计。据我估计,最富有的0.01%的财富所有者控制着14.8%的私人财富。最富有的1%人群的财富份额为37.5%。最富有的十分之一人群拥有60.7%的私人财富。财富不平等因地区而异。将两次世界大战期间波兰的财富不平等与其他欧洲国家的财富不公平进行比较,可以得出不同的结果。前0.01%的财富份额是欧洲最高的,前1%的财富份额在欧洲排名中处于中间位置,前10%的财富份额几乎是欧洲最低的。超级富豪中的小精英(0.01%)控制着比欧洲同行更高的国家财富份额,但其他十大富豪的财富份额相对较低。前分区的不平等发展可能部分解释了最高财富份额非常高的原因。
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The agricultural productivity gap: A global vision 农业生产力差距:全球视野
IF 0.5 Q1 HISTORY Pub Date : 2022-06-20 DOI: 10.1080/20780389.2022.2067747
Ángel Luis González-Esteban, Elisa Botella-Rodríguez
ABSTRACT Productivity in agriculture tends to grow slower than in other sectors. This is a stylized fact that has resulted in a persistent productivity gap, generalized over time and across countries. This paper explores the evolution of this gap from an international perspective, identifying patterns in both developed and developing countries. Empirical regularities are discussed in the light of a literature review on the causes of the gap and its socio-economic effects. Reflections on the nature of the productivity gap often merge with considerations on its social implications and on the policies that should be implemented to deal with it. We refer to this wider political economy issue as the ‘farm problem’, and argue that it has not been given a satisfactory solution, neither in rich nor in developing countries. Although in some industrialized countries the discharging of the countryside has acted as a major source of convergence, there has not been a general reduction in the productivity gap between agriculture and the rest of the economy worldwide, nor are there compelling reasons to assume that this will happen in the future.
摘要农业生产力的增长往往比其他部门慢。这是一个程式化的事实,导致了持续的生产力差距,随着时间的推移和国家之间的差距普遍存在。本文从国际角度探讨了这一差距的演变,确定了发达国家和发展中国家的模式。根据一篇关于差距原因及其社会经济影响的文献综述,讨论了经验规律。对生产力差距性质的思考往往与对其社会影响和应对政策的考虑相结合。我们将这一更广泛的政治经济问题称为“农业问题”,并认为无论是在富裕国家还是发展中国家,都没有得到令人满意的解决方案。尽管在一些工业化国家,农村的排放是趋同的主要来源,但全球农业与其他经济部门之间的生产力差距并没有普遍缩小,也没有令人信服的理由认为这将在未来发生。
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