Some remarks about growth and stagnation in the Mediterranean world in the XIXth and XXth centuries

• Autor(a) principal: Valério, Nuno
• Data de Publicação: 1992
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/27121
• topic: Economic History; Foreign Loans; Debt; Economic Development; Mediterranean

The International Economic History Association chose "Growth and stagnation in the Mediterranean world in the XIXth and XXth centuries" as the theme of section B 10 of the 10th International Economic History Congress (Leuven, 1990). In the general statement of themes and problems for the section, the three following questions were proposed as guidelines: — Is there a specifically Mediterranean pattern of economic evolution in the XIXth and XXth centuries? Or are there several patterns of economic evolution followed by different Mediterranean countries, which may be common to countries of other regions of the world? — How did Mediterranean economies become linked with the global world economy that developed in the XIXth and XXth centuries? — Is there any general explanation to the fact that Mediterranean economies showed a general trend of retardation when compared with the leading world economies ? The time has come to assess the contribution of the section to answering these questions, and to suggest an informal programme of research for the future. .