Why Is This State the Way That It Is?

Explains why Mississippi’s long-run growth and poverty outcomes diverged from its historical lead.

Development & poverty trapsPovertyExplainergdp per capitahuman capitalindustrial compositioninstitutionspoverty rateregional economic decline

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