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At the beginning of the First World War, Argentina had gone through several decades of continuous growth — only briefly interrupted during the two years of the 1890s crisis. At the time, Argentina’s 7 per cent overall growth rate — 3.8 per cent per capita — was higher than that of the USA and Australia and the majority of European countries.
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Conde, R.C. (2000). The Vicissitudes of an Exporting Economy: Argentina (1875–1930). In: Cárdenas, E., Ocampo, J.A., Thorp, R. (eds) An Economic History of Twentieth-Century Latin America. St Antony’s Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230599659_9
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