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Tales From Two Neighbors; Productivity Growth in Canada and the United States
Cerisola, Martin D.; Chan-Lau, Jorge A. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000
This paper assesses productivity trends in Canada vis-a-vis the United States from two perspectives. The first one is … based on estimates of total factor productivity. The second one decomposes productivity growth into two sources: investment … underlying cause of the pickup in productivity in Canada and the narrowing of the productivity gap with the United States. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248234
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And Schumpeter Said, "This is How Thou Shalt Grow"; Further Quest for Economic Growth in Poor Countries
Beaugrand, Philippe - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004
reverse this trend requires finding ways to raise total factor productivity in poor countries; in turn, this implies letting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825901
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The Elusive Gains From International Financial Integration
Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier; Jeanne, Olivier - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004
from a take-off in domestic productivity of the magnitude observed in some of these countries. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005605034
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Growth Slowdowns and the Middle-Income Trap
Aiyar, Shekhar; Duval, Romain A; Puy, Damien; Wu, Yiqun; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
The “middle-income trap” is the phenomenon of hitherto rapidly growing economies stagnating at middle-income levels and failing to graduate into the ranks of high-income countries. In this study we examine the middle-income trap as a special case of growth slowdowns, which are identified as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010790409
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ICT Equipment Investment and Growth in Low- and Lower-Middle-Income Countries
Haacker, Markus - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010
While production of ICT equipment plays a subordinate role for economic growth in most of these countries, they do benefit from capital deepening arising from falling prices of ICT equipment. Adapting established growth accounting approaches to the data environment of low-income countries, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008470403
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Chad; Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2007
This Selected Issues paper aims at discussing the impact of the oil windfall on Chad, with a focus on growth, poverty, competitiveness, and fiscal policy challenges posed by the oil revenue outlook. The paper discusses the reforms needed to remove structural factors that constraints the non-oil...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245496
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Pakistan's Macroeconomic Adjustment and Resumption of Growth, 1999-2004
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2005
, and by an acceleration of structural reforms to further improve productivity and the investment climate. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005599417
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You Say You Want a Revolution; Information Technology and Growth
Morsink, James; Haacker, Markus - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2002
that IT is contributing to labor productivity growth through both increases in the levels of IT capital per worker and … total factor productivity (TFP) growth in the production of IT equipment. The main outstanding issue is whether IT is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005769153
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Life-Cycles, Dynasties, Savings; Implications for Closed and Small, Open Economies
Faruqee, Hamid; Laxton, Douglas - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000
This paper examines the macroeconomic implications of life-cycle and dynastic saving behavior for closed and small, open economies. Using an extended version of Blanchard’s overlapping agents model, the analytical framework nests these two competing views, treating agents as either dynastic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005826319
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National Income and Its Distribution
Bruckner, Markus; Dabla-Norris, Era; Gradstein, Mark - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242187