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In recent years, India has enjoyed one of the highest growth rates worldwide, weathering the global financial crisis better than many other countries. Prudent macroeconomic policies will be critical to prolonging the current expansion, given the risks associated with high inflation and volatile...
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China is well-placed to avoid the so-called “middle-income trap” and to continue to converge towards the more advanced economies, even though growth is likely to slow from near double-digit rates in the first decade of this millennium to around 7% at the 2020 horizon. However, in order to...
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Data are shown to generate efficiency gains but to have been unevenly shared across firms and households, and the subpar economic performance of most advanced economies (prior to the pandemic) has been attributed to increased market power originating, at least in part, from the increased use of...
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A defining aspect of the digital age is data and its business use. Data have become an important input for firms (e.g., to train artificial intelligence algorithms) but data use is neither accounted for in macroeconomic statistics nor part of business contracts for goods and services provided to...
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consolidation to stabilise government-debt-to GDP ratios is compared with variant scenarios assuming deeper policy reforms. One main …
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This paper explores the role of managerial capital and business research and development (R&D) in fostering multifactor productivity (MFP) convergence in a panel of 42 countries. The OECD long-term growth model is augmented to show that, in addition to trade openness, an economy’s speed of...
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This paper develops and applies a simple “conditional growth” framework to make long-term GDP projections for the world … capital in explaining current cross-country disparities in GDP per capita levels. Other distinct features of the projection … market and pension reforms on future growth in employment levels. In the baseline projection, world GDP would grow in PPP …
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This paper investigates the effect of product market regulations on the international diffusion of productivity shocks. The empirical results indicate that restrictive product market regulations slow the process of adjustment through which best practice production techniques diffuse across...
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This paper investigates the effect of product market regulations on the international diffusion of productivity shocks. The empirical results indicate that restrictive product market regulations slow the process of adjustment through which best practice production techniques diffuse across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012446836
This paper develops and applies a simple “conditional growth” framework to make long-term GDP projections for the world … capital in explaining current cross-country disparities in GDP per capita levels. Other distinct features of the projection … market and pension reforms on future growth in employment levels. In the baseline projection, world GDP would grow in PPP …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012443085