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contribution of total factor productivity (TFP) to growth is largely responsible for the slowdown in trend growth in many SMICs …, which highlights the need for policy actions to reinvigorate productivity growth. This paper explores the question of what … kind of structural policies could boost productivity growth in SMICs and the political economy factors that may be …
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as on the three main growth channels: total factor productivity, physical capital accumulation, and human capital …
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This paper presents new results on the relationship between income inequality and education expansion-that is, increasing average years of schooling and reducing inequality of schooling. When dynamic panel estimation techniques are used to address issues of persistence and endogeneity, we find a...
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utilization rate. Strong internal "amplication" results from an economy-wide productivity shock across goods and human capital …
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In the last few decades, real GDP growth and investment in advanced countries have declined in tandem. This slowdown was not the result of weak demand (there has been no shift along the Okun curve), but of a decline in potential output growth (which has shifted the Okun curve to the left). We...
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While there is growing evidence of persistent or even permanent output losses from financial crises, the causes remain unclear. One candidate is intangible capital - a rising driver of economic growth that, being non-pledgeable as collateral, is vulnerable to financial frictions. By sheltering...
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that China's productivity convergence remains at an early stage, with the industrial sector more advanced than services …
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Following very strong growth during the period 2000-12, emerging market economies (EMEs) experienced a slowdown in the last couple of years. This paper examines the supply-side drivers of the strong growth performance of 63 EMEs and investigates if the recent slowdown in growth is transitory or...
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This paper empirically assesses the role of structural and institutional reforms in driving productivity growth across … reforms matter more for increasing productivity growth at the aggregate and sectoral levels for some emerging market and … payoffs, the paper also examines how productivity gains from various reforms evolve over the the short- and medium-term …
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provides evidence of a significant and negative relationship between total public debt and productivity growth. Looking at the … specific channels through which high debt affects productivity growth and the allocation of resources in Jamaica, the study … excessively on a few maturing sectors with limited scope for productivity growth. Furthermore, public investment has been crowded …
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