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predict stagnation (Meade, 1961). We use growth accounting to analyze the sources of past growth and project potential ranges … of growth through 2033. Growth averaged 4½ percent over the past 20 years. Our baseline suggests future growth rates … around 3¼ percent, but growth could reach 4-5 percent with strong pro-active policies including (i) improving investment and …
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This paper assesses the impact of the steadily growing remittance flows to sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Though the region receives only a small portion of the total recorded remittances to developing countries, and the volume of aid flows to SSA swamps remittances, this paper finds that...
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This Selected Issues paper analyzes the effect of international migration on unemployment in New Zealand. The empirical results in this paper suggest that net migration inflows give rise to a fall in the unemployment rate. The paper estimates a system of equations including the unemployment...
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Does the distribution of income within a country become more equal as it grows richer? This paper uses plausibly exogenous variations in trade-weighted world income and international oil price shocks as instruments for within-country variations in countries real GDP per capita to examine this...
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We investigate the relation between changes in tax composition and long-run economic growth using a new dataset …-income countries. To our knowledge this is the most comprehensive and up-to-date dataset on tax composition and growth. We find that … increasing income taxes while reducing consumption and property taxes is associated with slower growth over the long run. We also …
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This paper assesses the real effects of the energy reform in Mexico by looking at its impact on manufacturing output through changes in energy prices. Using sub-sector and state-level manufacturing output data, along with past variation in energy prices, we find electricity...
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role of balance sheet adjustment for resuming sustained growth. In this paper we examine private sector deleveraging … during the bust phase of leverage cycles on subsequent medium-term growth. The results suggest that larger and quicker …
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support sustainable growth. Since export diversification takes a long time, it has to start now. We argue that the failure to …
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India’s real GDP growth slipped substantially after the North Atlantic financial crisis. Return to a sustained high … growth trajectory is feasible but it will need much more focused attention to the revival of manufacturing and to the … ahead will be more difficult in view of the protracted slowdown in global growth and trade. …
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Total factor productivity growth was stagnant or slowing in many advanced countries even prior to the crisis. This …
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