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relief, would depend on a recipient country's initial economic conditions and level of total factor productivity. …
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We reassess exchange rate prediction using a wider set of models that have been proposed in the last decade. The performance of these models is compared against two reference specifications-purchasing power parity and the sticky-price monetary model. The models are estimated in first-difference...
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used determinants of total factor productivity, a measure of the effect of labor reallocation and an index of economic … suggest that growth will depend, to a large extent, on educational investments and productivity gains in agriculture. …
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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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models featuring Epstein-Zin preferences and affine dynamics for productivity growth and volatility. The method relies on log …
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Italy’s deep-rooted structural problems resulted in an unsatisfactory productivity performance and a dismal growth … decline in output is mainly accounted for by a collapse in productivity; in the medium term, employment and capital are also …
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measures differences in labor productivity (the Ricardian measure), and the other differences in total factor productivity (the …
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This paper provides empirical evidence on the response of labor productivity to the arrival of new inventions. The … analysis shows that labor productivity may temporarily fall below trend after technological progress. However, the effects on … productivity differ between the pre- and post-World War II periods. The pre-war period shows evidence of a productivity slowdown as …
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characteristics. The results suggest that institutional differences are important determinants of total factor productivity and that …
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