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The purpose of this article is to explore the following hypothesis: that the process of economic growth can usefully be regarded as centring on a relatively brief time interval of two or three decades when the economy and the society of which it is a part transform themselves in such ways that economic growth is, subsequently, more or less automatic. This decisive transformation is here called the take-off.1
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Rostow, W.W. (1971). The Take-off into Self-sustained Growth. In: Mountjoy, A.B. (eds) Developing the Underdeveloped Countries. Geographical Readings. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-15452-4_8
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