The pastoral boom, the rural land market, and long swings in New Zealand economic growth, 1873-1939
Higher farm and manufacturing productivity associated with refrigerated exports led to New Zealand's attainment of the world's highest Human Development Index in 1913. Local responses to export opportunities increased the social depth of land ownership and fostered intensive growth. Closer...
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| description | Higher farm and manufacturing productivity associated with refrigerated exports led to New Zealand's attainment of the world's highest Human Development Index in 1913. Local responses to export opportunities increased the social depth of land ownership and fostered intensive growth. Closer settlement meant that land-related income gains spread widely, but land market volatility also created instability. New Zealand had the world's highest GDP per capita in 1938, but it experienced long swings in its growth rates. Dramatic swings in rural land market activity engendered by the pastoral boom contributed greatly to a long depression in the 1920s; subsequently a new monetary regime facilitated fast recovery. © 2009 Economic History Society. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-354132018-03-29T09:08:49Z The pastoral boom, the rural land market, and long swings in New Zealand economic growth, 1873-1939 Greasley, D. Oxley, Leslie Higher farm and manufacturing productivity associated with refrigerated exports led to New Zealand's attainment of the world's highest Human Development Index in 1913. Local responses to export opportunities increased the social depth of land ownership and fostered intensive growth. Closer settlement meant that land-related income gains spread widely, but land market volatility also created instability. New Zealand had the world's highest GDP per capita in 1938, but it experienced long swings in its growth rates. Dramatic swings in rural land market activity engendered by the pastoral boom contributed greatly to a long depression in the 1920s; subsequently a new monetary regime facilitated fast recovery. © 2009 Economic History Society. 2009 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/35413 10.1111/j.1468-0289.2008.00440.x restricted |
| spellingShingle | Greasley, D. Oxley, Leslie The pastoral boom, the rural land market, and long swings in New Zealand economic growth, 1873-1939 |
| title | The pastoral boom, the rural land market, and long swings in New Zealand economic growth, 1873-1939 |
| title_full | The pastoral boom, the rural land market, and long swings in New Zealand economic growth, 1873-1939 |
| title_fullStr | The pastoral boom, the rural land market, and long swings in New Zealand economic growth, 1873-1939 |
| title_full_unstemmed | The pastoral boom, the rural land market, and long swings in New Zealand economic growth, 1873-1939 |
| title_short | The pastoral boom, the rural land market, and long swings in New Zealand economic growth, 1873-1939 |
| title_sort | pastoral boom, the rural land market, and long swings in new zealand economic growth, 1873-1939 |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/35413 |