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Institutions matter! Treaty ports imposed on 19thC China brought property rights protection & judicial process that had a persistent positive effect on investment & economic activity that is still visible today, according to Yuan Liu & Lei Zhang in a new @APEHR article.
https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.12277
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