Prados de la Escosura, Leandro2009-07-142009-07-142007Scandinavian Economic History Review, 2007, v. 55, n. 3, pp. 187-2211750-2837https://hdl.handle.net/10016/4723Europe provides a suitable scenario for testing empirical regularities of growth since, to a large extent, its countries share institutions, policies, and resource endowments. Patterns of development, which associate structural change with variations in GDP per head and population, are constructed for modern Europe (1850-1990) along the lines of Chenery and Syrquin's pathbreaking work. Thus, it is possible to discern whether a common set of development processes is observable for the whole continent and whether countries that had a late start exhibited, as suggested by Gerschenkron, a differential behaviour in terms of accumulation, resource allocation, and demographic transition. The results tend to confirm the different nature of latecomers' development.application/pdfeng©Taylor and FrancisChenery and SyrquinGerschenkronLatecomersModern EuropePatterns of developmentresearch articleEconomíaHistoriaopen access1873221Scandinavian Economic History Review55