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This paper explores the causes of India's productivity surge around 1980, more than a decade before serious economic reforms were initiated. Trade liberalization, expansionary demand, a favorable external environment, and improved agricultural performance did not play a role. We find evidence...
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Using a simple growth accounting framework, we project India's future potential output growth rate through 2025. We … argue that there is perhaps more upside potential than downside risks to our central estimate of annual growth, which is …
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Recent growth accelerations in Africa are characterized by increasing productivity in agriculture, a declining share of … employment but do not experience any productivity growth. We suggest the poor employment performance of large firms is related to …
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Unlike economies as a whole, manufacturing industries exhibit unconditional convergence in labor productivity. The paper documents this finding for 4-digit manufacturing sectors for a large group of developed and developing countries over the period since 1990. The coefficient of unconditional...
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The controversy over the appropriate partitioning of East Asian growth into accumulation versus technical change has … Asian countries according to their growth performance. A parsimonious specification containing only initial income, initial … education, and institutional quality accounts for virtually all of the variation in the growth performance in the region, even …
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mix of goods that a country produces may have important implications for economic growth. We demonstrate this proposition … its properties, and show that it predicts subsequent economic growth. …
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has any effect on growth. We close by noting that recent attempts at integration have very different starting points and …
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We estimate the interrelationships among economic institutions, political institutions, openness, and income levels, using identification through heteroskedasticity (IH). We split our cross-national dataset into two sub-samples: (i) colonies versus non-colonies; and (ii) continents aligned on an...
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