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Roberto Bonfatti

University of Padua & University of Nottingham
roberto.bonfatti@unipd.it

Roberto Bonfatti has a part-time appointment as an Assistant Professor with the School of Economics, University of Nottingham, his main position being at the University of Padua (Italy). He was a full time assistant professor at the  University of Nottingham between 2012 and 2018. Before that, he was a Junior Research Fellow (post-doc) in economics at St John's College, Oxford, and a member of the Oxford Center for the Analysis of Resource Rich Economies (OxCARRE). He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the London School of Economics (2010), and B.Sc. in economics and finance from Bocconi University.  His homepage is: https://sites.google.com/site/rbonfattiweb/

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Trade disruption, industrialisation, and how the sun set on British rule in India

It is argued that by keeping India open to imports of cheap British manufactures, the imperial power made it excessively difficult for Indian industry to emerge in the early 20th century. This article...

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