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analyses of public capital productivity have generally been limited to the official capital stock estimates available in a …
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This paper examines the empirical relationship between trade and total factor productivity (TFP) in South Africa. It …
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Are improvements in growth in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) since the mid-1990s sustainable? What types of growth strategies contribute the most to reducing poverty? This paper examines these questions in four stages. First, it explores the factors contributing to the post- 1995 improvement in...
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as on the three main growth channels: total factor productivity, physical capital accumulation, and human capital …
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-term potential estimates have risks on both sides: productivity gains and investment could be volatile, but determined reforms could … sustain strong productivity growth. …
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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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This paper emphasizes the importance of total factor productivity (TFP) developments in the nontradables sector to …
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productivity, and than uses a panel regression framework to analyze the growth impact of changes in various factors. Finally …
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Recently, the export performance of France relative to its own past and relative to a major trading partner, Germany, deteriorated. That deterioration seems related to the geographical destination and product composition of trend exports. Faced with an increase in unit labor costs or in its...
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We revisit the time-honored link between productivity and the real exchange rate. Consistent with the traditional view …, we find that higher labor productivity tends to lead to appreciation of the real exchange rate. Contrary to the … traditional view, however, we find that the positive productivity effect is transmitted through the real exchange rate based on …
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