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Demographic Transitions and Economic Miracles in Emerging Asia
Bloom, David E. - 1997
The demographic transition a change from high to low rates of mortality and fertility has been more dramatic in East Asia during this century than in any other region or historical period. By introducing demographic variables into an empirical model of economic growth, this essay shows that this...
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The Effect of Population Aging on Economic Growth, the Labor Force and Productivity
Maestas, Nicole - 2016
Population aging is widely assumed to have detrimental effects on economic growth yet there is little empirical evidence about the magnitude of its effects. This paper starts from the observation that many U.S. states have already experienced substantial growth in the size of their older...
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The Integration of the Canadian Productivity Accounts within the System of National Accounts : Current Status and Challenges Ahead
Baldwin, John R. - 2005
A statistical agency faces several challenges in building Productivity Accounts. What started out as a request for simple ratios of output to employment has moved to a demand for multifactor (total factor) productivity measures that take into account both labor and capital inputs, the...
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The Architecture of the System of National Accounts : A Three Country Comparison, Canada, Australia, and United Kingdom
Wilson, Karen - 2005
. In Canada the supply and use framework is used to determine the level of GDP but not all of the components of the flow of …/borrowing across sectors. This allows Canada to track the statistical system which provides independent estimates form establishment or …; Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom …
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The Growth of Nations Revisited : Global Environmental Accounting from 1998 to 2018
Mohan, Aniruddh - 2020
A persistent issue in environmental economics is whether growth is sustainable. Pollution is a key driver of sustainability, which we define as an economy exhibiting falling pollution damages at its balanced growth path. We deduct air pollution and carbon dioxide damages from the national...
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Understanding PPPs and PPP-based national accounts
Deaton, Angus - 2008
PPP-based national accounts have become an important part of the database for macroeconomists, development economists, and economic historians. Frequently used global data come from the Penn World Table (PWT) and the World Bank's World Development Indicators; a substantial fraction of the world...
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Population Aging and Intergenerational Transfers : Introducing Age into National Accounts
Mason, Andrew - 2006
In all societies intergenerational transfers are large and have an important influence on inequality and growth. The development of each generation of youth depends on the resources that it receives from productive members of society for health, education, and sustenance. The well-being of the...
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What is Productivity : Capacity or Welfare Management?
Hulten, Charles R. - 1992
A number of recent papers have examined the role of environmental variables in accounting for economic growth, and have concluded that net measures of national product are superior to gross measures in portraying the outcome of the growth process. This paper argues that the two measures are not...
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Population and Welfare : The Greatest Good for the Greatest Number
Adhami, Mohamad; Bils, Mark; Jones, Charles I.; Klenow, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Economic growth is typically measured in per capita terms. But social welfare should arguably include the number of people as well as their standard of living. We decompose social welfare growth -- measured in consumption-equivalent (CE) units -- into contributions from rising population and...
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Tariffs and Growth in Late Nineteenth Century America
Irwin, Douglas A. - 2000
Were high import tariffs somehow related to the strong U.S. economic growth during the late nineteenth century? This paper examines this frequently mentioned but controversial question and investigates the channels by which tariffs could have promoted growth during this period. The paper shows...
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