78 percent of the difference in income today between sub-Saharan Africa and Western Europe is explained by technology differences that already existed in 1500 A.D. – even BEFORE the slave trade and colonialism.
Was Today’s Poverty Determined in 1000 B.C.?
That is one implication of a provocative new study that compares countries’ economies today with their level of technological development millenia ago.
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