One of the pieces where Sachs talks about the latitude, wealth, and
growth correlation is:
Geography and Economic Development
Gallup, John Luke ; Sachs, Jeffrey D. ; Mellinger, Andrew D.
National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper: 6849. 1998.
Abstract:
This paper addresses the complex relationship between geography and
macroeconomic growth. We investigate the ways in which geography may
matter directly for growth, controlling for economic policies and
institutions, as well as the effects of geography on policy choices and
institutions. We find that location and climate have large effects on
income levels and income growth, through their effects on transport
costs, disease burdens, and agricultural productivity, among other
channels. Furthermore, geography seems to be a factor in the choice of
economic policy itself. When we identify geographical regions that are
not conducive to modern economic growth, we find that many of these
regions have high population density and rapid population increase. This
is especially true of populations that are located far from the coast,
and thus that face large transport costs for international trade, as
well as populations in tropical regions of high disease burden.
Furthermore, much of the population increase in the next thirty years is
likely to take place in these geographically disadvantaged regions.
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