Catching-up and falling behind: Russian economic growth, 1690s-1880s

This paper provides decadal estimates of GDP per capita for the Russian Empire from the 1690s to the 1880s. GDP per capita in the 1880s was barely 3 per cent higher than in the 1690s, but this was not the result of continuous stagnation. Rather, positive growth during the first half of the eighteent...

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Main Authors: Broadberry, S, Korchmina, E
Format: Working paper
Language:English
Published: University of Oxford 2022