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This paper explores the implications of Uni.ed Growth Theory for the origins of existing di¤erences in income per capita across countries. The theory sheds light on three fundamental layers of comparative development. It identi.es the factors that have governed the pace of the transitionfrom stagnation to growth and have thus contributed to contemporary variation in economic development. It uncovers the forces that have sparked the emergence of multiple growth regimes and convergence clubs, and it underlines the persistent e¤ects that variations in pre-historical biogeographical conditions have generated on the composition of human capital and economic development across the globe.
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Keywords: Growth ; Comparative Development ; Globalization ; Technological Progress ; Demographic Transition ; Diversity ; Human Capital ; Malthusian Stagnation ; This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports :
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