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Can geography lock a society stagnation?

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Dao, Nguyen Thang [UCL] Davila Muro, Julio [UCL]

We extend Galor and Weil (2000) by including geographical factors in order to show that under some initial conditions, an economy may be locked in Malthusian stagnation and never take off. Specifically, we characterize the set of geographical factors for which this happens, and this way we show how the interplay of the available "land", its suitability for living, and its degree of isolation, determines whether an economy can escape stagnation.

Document type Article de périodique (Journal article) – Article de recherche
Access type Accès libre
Publication date 2013
Language Anglais
Journal information "Economics Letters" - Vol. 120, no.3, p. 442-446 (2013)
Peer reviewed yes
Publisher Elsevier BV ((Netherlands) Amsterdam)
issn 0165-1765
e-issn 1873-7374
Publication status Publié
Affiliation UCL - SSH/LIDAM/CORE - Center for operations research and econometrics
Keywords geographical factors ; loss of technology ; human capital
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Bibliographic reference Dao, Nguyen Thang ; Davila Muro, Julio. Can geography lock a society stagnation?. In: Economics Letters, Vol. 120, no.3, p. 442-446 (2013)
Permanent URL http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/134750