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Wealth inequality in colonial Hispanic-America: Montevideo in the late eighteenth century 殖民地西班牙裔美洲的财富不平等:18世纪末的蒙得维的亚

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Economic History of Developing Regions Pub Date : 2022-06-17 DOI: 10.1080/20780389.2022.2075723

María Inés Moraes, Rebeca Riella, C. Vicario, Pablo Marmissolle

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Market integration via entrepôt: Southeast Asia's rice trade, 1828–1870 通过entrepôt的市场整合:东南亚大米贸易，1828-1870

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Economic History of Developing Regions Pub Date : 2022-06-15 DOI: 10.1080/20780389.2022.2058926

Atsushi Kobayashi

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The political economy of development in Belize under the People’s United Party 人民联合党领导下伯利兹发展的政治经济学

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Economic History of Developing Regions Pub Date : 2022-06-10 DOI: 10.1080/20780389.2022.2057294

Jacob Ferrell, Joel Wainwright

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Human capital in Chile: The development of numeracy during the last 250 years 智利的人力资本:250年来计算能力的发展

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Economic History of Developing Regions Pub Date : 2022-02-14 DOI: 10.1080/20780389.2021.2025046

M. Llorca-Jaña, Javier Rivas, I. Pérez, Juan Navarrete-Montalvo

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Economic inequality in Latin America and Africa, 1650 to 1950: Can a comparison of historical trajectories help to understand underdevelopment? 拉丁美洲和非洲的经济不平等，1650年至1950年:历史轨迹的比较能帮助理解欠发达吗?

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Economic History of Developing Regions Pub Date : 2022-02-04 DOI: 10.1080/20780389.2021.2024073

Stefania Galli, D. Theodoridis, K. Rönnbäck

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Comparative labour productivity in British and Russian manufacturing, circa 1908 1908年前后英国和俄国制造业的劳动生产率比较

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Economic History of Developing Regions Pub Date : 2022-01-18 DOI: 10.1080/20780389.2021.2009797

Nikita Lychakov, D. Saprykin, Nadia Vanteeva

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Indian guinée cloth, West Africa, and the French colonial empire 1826–1925: Colonialism and imperialism as agents of globalization 1826–1925年，西非和法国殖民帝国：殖民主义和帝国主义是全球化的推动者

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Economic History of Developing Regions Pub Date : 2021-11-17 DOI: 10.1080/20780389.2021.1985454

Toyomu Masaki

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The missing boys: Understanding the unbalanced sex ratio in South Africa, 1894–2011 失踪的男孩:了解1894-2011年南非性别比例失衡

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Economic History of Developing Regions Pub Date : 2021-11-17 DOI: 10.1080/20780389.2021.1987212

Francisco J. Marco-Gracia, J. Fourie

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Borrower income and loan rates in the credit market of Lima 利马信贷市场的借款人收入和贷款利率

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Economic History of Developing Regions Pub Date : 2021-10-04 DOI: 10.1080/20780389.2021.1962705

L. Zegarra

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New perspectives and sources of the history of banking in Latin America and Spain, nineteenth to twentieth centuries 十九至二十世纪拉丁美洲和西班牙银行业历史的新观点和来源