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040 $aDLC$cDLC
050 00 $aHB1
100 1 $aBloom, David E.$q(David Elliot),$d1955-
245 14 $aThe wealth of nations$h[electronic resource] :$bfundamental forces versus poverty traps /$cDavid E. Bloom, David Canning, Jaypee Sevilla.
260 $aCambridge, MA :$bNational Bureau of Economic Research,$cc2002.
490 1 $aNBER working paper series ;$vworking paper 8714
538 $aSystem requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.
538 $aMode of access: World Wide Web.
500 $aTitle from PDF file as viewed on 3/3/2005.
530 $aAlso available in print.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
520 3 $a"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.
650 0 $aIncome distribution$xEconometric models.
650 0 $aEconomic development$xEconometric models.
650 0 $aPoverty$xEconometric models.
700 1 $aCanning, David.
700 1 $aSevilla, Jaypee.
710 2 $aNational Bureau of Economic Research.
830 0 $aWorking paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) ;$vworking paper no. 8714.
856 40 $uhttp://papers.nber.org/papers/W8714