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Advancing India’s Structural Transformation and Catch-up to the Technology Frontier
Alonso, Cristian - 2024
While India’s growth has been strong in recent decades, its structural transformation remains incomplete. In this paper, we first take stock of India’s growth to date. We find that economic activity has shifted from agriculture to services, but agriculture remains the predominant employer....
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Growth and Productivity in Papua New Guinea.
Faal, Ebrima - 2006
-- IV. GROWTH ACCOUNTING AND TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY -- V. IMPLICATIONS FOR MEDIUM-TERM GROWTH -- VI. DETERMINANTS OF … PRODUCTIVITY IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA -- VII. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS -- CALCULATING CAPITAL STOCK -- REFERENCES. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012691125
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Productivity Growth, Technological Convergence, R and D, Trade, and Labor Markets : Evidence from the French Manufacturing Sector
Khan, Tehmina S. - 2006
Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. THEORETICAL LITERATURE AND EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE -- III. THEORETICAL MODEL -- IV. DATA SOURCES AND VARIABLE CONSTRUCTION -- V. ESTIMATION METHODOLOGY AND RESULTS -- VI. CONCLUSIONS -- APPENDIXES
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Convergence in Emerging Europe
Vamvakidis, Athanasios - 2008
The emerging European economies have been converging rapidly towards the more advanced European economies in recent years. However, large external imbalances in parts of the region have raised questions about sustainability and concerns about vulnerabilities. Empirical evidence in this paper...
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Dynamics of Provincial Growth in China : A Nonparametric Approach
Unel, Bulent - 2006
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Regional Convergence in Latin America
Sutton, Bennett; Lindow, Genevieve; Serra, Maria Isabel; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006
This paper presents empirical evidence on convergence of per capita output for regions within six large middle-income Latin American countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru. It explores the role played by several exogenous sectoral shocks and differences in steady states...
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Productivity and Product Markets in Korea: Evidence from Advanced Economies
Swiston, Andrew - 2022
This paper constructs an industry-level dataset of productivity across advanced economies, showing that Korea's labor … productivity and total factor productivity levels are below the median of other advanced economies. We identify sizable industry …-level productivity gaps in Korea with respect to the global frontier, especially in market-oriented services. Using the OECD's Product …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015060021
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Social spending in Korea : can it foster sustainable and inclusive growth?
Elekdaǧ, Selim Ali - 2012
Going forward, Korea faces two closely related challenges: sustaining economic growth against the backdrop of a rapidly aging population and ameliorating income inequality. This paper argues that a gradual increase in social spending could promote more sustainable and inclusive growth in Korea....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009659803
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Public Investment as an Engine of Growth
Warner, Andrew M. - 2014
This paper looks at the empirical record whether big infrastructure and public capital drives have succeeded in accelerating economic growth in low-income countries. It looks at big long-lasting drives in public capital spending, as these were arguably clear and exogenous policy decisions. On...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012690573
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Caribbean growth in an international perspective : the role of tourism and size
Thacker, Nita; Acevedo, Sebastian; Perrelli, Roberto - 2012
is explained more by a decline in productivity rather than a lack of investment. Second, tourism has been a significant … contributor to higher growth (through both capital accumulation and productivity) and lower output volatility, and in man …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009659894