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Appendix C - Conversions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 November 2009
Summary
Translations
All translations from Portuguese and Spanish are mine.
Currencies
To enable comparisons across countries and periods, I converted exact monetary figures to 2000 U.S. dollars. Historical and international conversions were based mostly on websites posted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (http://woodrow.mpls.frb.fed.us/research/data/us/calc/hist1913.cfm) and the Economic History Net (http://www.eh.net). I did not convert some dollar figures from the 1990s, when inflation was comparatively low, or from some rough estimates provided in interviews where it was sometimes unclear what dollar or year reference interviewees were using.
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