Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/84671 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Discussion Paper No. 2008/02
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
This article views the four economies of the South in a long run historical perspective of 1500-2000. It contrasts the history and the initial endowments of the two Northern hemisphere economies China and India which are land scarce and labour abundant with the two Southern hemisphere economies Brazil and South Africa which are land abundant and labour scarce. It argues for different strategies for future growth and discusses impediments which may come in the paths of these four economies in the near future.
Subjects: 
China
India
Brazil
South Africa
development
history
JEL: 
N1
O11
F54
ISBN: 
978-92-9230-060-9
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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