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Sustainability of Output Growth in Indian Manufacturing: A Decomposition Analysis of Selected Industries
Pradhan, Gopinath; Barik, Kaustuva - EconWPA - 2004
The present paper undertakes a decomposition analysis of the output growth of Indian manufacturing sector. Such an exercise becomes important in view of the non-sustainability of growth proposed by Krugman for the East Asian countries. As the law of diminishing returns to factor inputs is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561851
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The Relationship Between Growth and Investment
Rao, B Bhaskara - EconWPA - 2005
This paper utilizes the growth accounting framework to derive and analyze the relationship between the rate of growth of output and the ratio of investment to output. With plausible parametric assumptions this framework is used to examine the recent controversy in Fiji on investment and growth....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126307
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Growth and Business Cycles for the Swedish Economy 1963-1999
Barot, Bharat - EconWPA - 2004
, using a dynamic specification of Total Factor Productivity (TFP). In order to facilitate comparisons we compare the results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412664
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Investment Ratio and Growth
Rao, B Bhaskara - EconWPA - 2005
In growth and development policy investment ratio is an important policy instrument. However, there is no well defined framework to determine what should be the investment ratio for a given growth target. This paper explains the potential of Solow (1956) and Solow (1957) to explain the...
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Information Technology and Australia’s Productivity Surge
Parham, Dean; Roberts, Paul; Sun, Haishun - EconWPA - 2001
productivity performance in the 1990s and the contribution to labour productivity growth was at least as strong as it was in the US …. Australia generated a productivity improvement of 1.1 per cent from information and communication technology use and other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062448
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China’s Economic Growth 1978-2025: What We Know Today about China’s Economic Growth Tomorrow
Holz, Carsten A. - EconWPA - 2005
Views of the future China vary widely. While some believe that the collapse of China is inevitable, others see the emergence of a new superpower that increasingly poses a threat to the U.S. This paper examines the economic growth prospects of China over the next two decades. Extrapolating past...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062447
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Does ICT Investment Matter for Growth and Labor Productivity in Transition Economies?
Piatkowski, Marcin - EconWPA - 2004
Following up on a previous paper by the same author on the contribution of ICT capital to growth and labor productivity … telecommunication equipment to output growth and labor productivity between 1995 and 2000 in most countries featured in the study was … in output and labor productivity and hence accelerate the process of catching-up. The relatively large contribution of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005555980
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The Contribution of ICT Investment to Economic Growth and Labor Productivity in Poland 1995-2000
Piatkowski, Marcin - EconWPA - 2003
productivity in a number of developed countries in the 1990’s. There are however no studies, which would estimate the contribution … of ICT to growth and productivity in post-communist, transition economies. Data availability, consistency, and … framework, at estimating the contribution of investment in ICT to output growth and labor productivity in Poland, the largest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556009
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China’s Economic Growth 1978-2025: What We Know Today about China’s Economic Growth Tomorrow
Holz, Carsten A - EconWPA - 2005
Views of the future China vary widely. While some believe that the collapse of China is inevitable, others see the emergence of a new superpower that increasingly poses a threat to the U.S. This paper examines the economic growth prospects of China over the next two decades. Extrapolating past...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556063
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Capital Augmenting and Labor Augmenting Approach in Measuring Contribution of Human Capital and Education to Economic Growth
Popovic, Milenko - EconWPA - 2005
In this paper an effort has been made to unveil some hidden and implicit assumptions that has been used in different models dealing with analysis and measurement of contribution of human capital to economic growth. In order to do it we started from the general production function with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556090