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Most analysts of the modern Latin American economy believe that it has always had very
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We use the digitized Congressional Record and the Google Ngrams corpus to study the
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Despite the fact that China and Vietnam have been the world's two fastest growing
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This paper extends and contributes to the literature on the drivers of income inequality in
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Studies on what causes a state to democratize have focused on economic, social, and
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Most analysts of the modern Latin American economy hold to a pessimistic belief in
historical persistence--they believe that Latin America has always had very high levels of …