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... cent per annum between 1853 and 1873, to 1–6 per cent per annum between 1873 and 1899. Thereafter, the growth rate revived (2–7 per cent per annum 1899–1913) but this was due to a combination of unprecedentedly high capital exports and ...
... cent per annum between 1853 and 1873, to 1–6 per cent per annum between 1873 and 1899. Thereafter, the growth rate revived (2–7 per cent per annum 1899–1913) but this was due to a combination of unprecedentedly high capital exports and ...
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... cent per annum between 1853 and 1873 , to 1-6 per cent per annum between 1873 and 1899. Thereafter , the growth rate revived ( 2-7 per cent per annum 1899–1913 ) but this was due to a combination of unprecedentedly high capital exports ...
... cent per annum between 1853 and 1873 , to 1-6 per cent per annum between 1873 and 1899. Thereafter , the growth rate revived ( 2-7 per cent per annum 1899–1913 ) but this was due to a combination of unprecedentedly high capital exports ...
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... cent of net industrial output and employed 25 per cent of the working population . Most were heavily dependent upon an increasingly narrow range of export markets located mainly within the British Empire , South America and Asia , and ...
... cent of net industrial output and employed 25 per cent of the working population . Most were heavily dependent upon an increasingly narrow range of export markets located mainly within the British Empire , South America and Asia , and ...
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... cent of the value of total British exports and the figure was still as high as 24-1 per cent in 1913. Whilst few historians would deny that the pre - 1914 industry was remarkably successful in exploiting new sources of demand in the ...
... cent of the value of total British exports and the figure was still as high as 24-1 per cent in 1913. Whilst few historians would deny that the pre - 1914 industry was remarkably successful in exploiting new sources of demand in the ...
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... cent of national income to 7 per cent50 ( although it fell back to 4 per cent in 1905 ) , whilst in volume terms it grew impressively from 147 million tons in 1880 to 287 million tons in 1913. It is worth emphasising that much of the ...
... cent of national income to 7 per cent50 ( although it fell back to 4 per cent in 1905 ) , whilst in volume terms it grew impressively from 147 million tons in 1880 to 287 million tons in 1913. It is worth emphasising that much of the ...
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2nd series American Bacon and Eltis balance of payments Bank of England Blackaby boom Bretton Woods Britain Britain's economic British economy British industry British Overseas Cambridge capital cent Coalmining Industry competition considerable cost cotton countries country's currency current account D. H. Aldcroft De-industrialisation decline deficit depression dollar economic growth Economic History Review economic policy empire employment Europe European exchange expenditure factors favour foreign Germany gold standard government's Howson ibid Imperial Preference important income increased inflation international economy interwar period J. M. Keynes John Maynard Keynes Keynes lend-lease loan London major manufacturing industry ment million Moggridge Monetary Policy multilateral organisation output political position postwar prewar primary producing problem programme protectionism rate of growth recovery reduction reproduced by permission rise Robert Skidelsky role Second Labour Government sector Skidelsky staple industries Sterling Area structure Table reproduced tariff trade union Treasury