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100			_aBertram, Geoffrey
245			_aOn the convergence of small island economies with their metropolitan patrons
260			_c2004
520			_aSuggests that the per capita GDP of small island economies, and its growth through time, are explained to a large extent by two variables: the closeness of the political linkages tying each island to a coresponding metropolitan patron in the core of the world system and the level of per capita GDP in the metropolitan paton economy. Opines that in the small-island setting, there has been no tradeoff between political dependence and material welfare, the two go hand in hand.
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