From Convergence to Divergence: Portuguese Economic Growth, 1527–1850

Palma, Nuno; Reis, Jaime

doi:10.1017/s0022050719000056

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“…Maddison's pathbreaking study has stimulated much progress in historical national accounting for medieval and early modern Europe, with annual estimates now available back as far as 1300 for Britain, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Sweden and France and back to 1500 for Portugal and Germany (Broadberry et al, 2015a;van Zanden and van Leeuwen, 2012;Malanima, 2011;Álvarez-Nogal and Prados de la Escosura, 2013;Schön and Kranz, 2012;Krantz, 2017;Ridolfi, 2017;Pfister, 2015;Palma and Reis, 2017). For Asia, progress has been rather slower, as there is less of a tradition of collecting data and processing it within an economic framework on which to build.…”

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Japan and the great divergence, 730–1874

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Broadberry²,

Fukao

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Explorations in Economic History

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Despite being the first Asian economy to achieve modern economic growth, Japan has received relatively little attention in the Great Divergence debate. New estimates suggest that although the level of GDP per capita remained below the level of northwest Europe throughout the period 730-1874, Japan experienced positive trend growth before 1868, in contrast to the negative trend growth experienced in China and India, leading to a Little Divergence within Asia. However, growth in Japan remained slower than in northwest Europe so that Japan continued to fall behind until after the institutional reforms of the early Meiji period. The Great Divergence thus occurred as the most dynamic part of Asia fell behind the most dynamic part of Europe.JEL classification: N10, N30, N35, O10, O57

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Japan and the great divergence, 730–1874

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Broadberry²,

Fukao

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“…Forsyth andNicholas (1983), andDrelichman (2005a), argue along these lines, though more work would be welcome, using data on exchange rates, exports, and a sectoral breakdown of industries into tradable and non-tradable kinds, including at the local level. Portugal's economic activity also boomed during the initial period of growth in Brazilian gold production, but incomes then steadily declined from the mid-eighteenth century onwards, as the percentage of the population working outside agriculture declined from 46.5% in 1750 to 33.1% in 1850 (Palma and Reis 2019).…”

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American Precious Metals and Their Consequences for Early Modern Europe

Palma

2020

Handbook of the History of Money and Currency

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Over the early modern period and beyond, massive amounts of silver and gold were found and mined in the Americas. In this paper, I review the consequences for the European economies. Some second-order receiver countries such as England benefited in both the short and long run. First-order receivers such as Spain and Portugal also benefited in the short-run, but their continued exposure to the arrival of massive quantities of precious metals eventually led to loss of competitiveness and an institutional resource curse.

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“…The participation of women in the mid-eighteenth century Portuguese economy and in particular of self-employed married women and widows cannot be dissociated from the fact that in Portugal the period under examination was rather prosperous (Palma and Reis 2019).…”

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Reconsidering the Southern European Model: Marital Status, Women's Work and Labour Relations in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Portugal

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Carvalhal

2020

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Challenging current ideas in mainstream scholarship on differences between female labour force participation in southern and north-western Europe and their impact on economic development, this article shows that in Portugal, neither marriage nor widowhood prevented women from participating in the labour market of mid-eighteenth-century. Our research demonstrates that marriage provided women with the resources they needed to work in various capacities in all economic sectors.This article also argues that single Portuguese women had an incentive to work and did so mostly as wage earners. Finally, the comparison of our dataset on female occupations from tax records with other European cases calls for a revision of the literature and the development of a more nuanced picture of the north-south divide.

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From Convergence to Divergence: Portuguese Economic Growth, 1527–1850

Cited by 85 publications

References 36 publications

Japan and the great divergence, 730–1874

Japan and the great divergence, 730–1874

American Precious Metals and Their Consequences for Early Modern Europe

Reconsidering the Southern European Model: Marital Status, Women's Work and Labour Relations in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Portugal

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