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Gdp Growth, Potential Output, and Output Gaps in Mexico
Faal, Ebrima - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005
This paper analyzes the sources of Mexico's economic growth since the 1960s and compares various decompositions of historical growth into its trend and cyclical components. The role of the implied output gaps in the inflationary process is then assessed. Looking ahead, the paper presents...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005604901
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Relating the Knowledge Production Function to total Factor Productivity; An Endogenous Growth Puzzle
Joutz, Frederick L.; Abdih, Yasser - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005
The knowledge production function is central to R&D-based growth models. This paper empirically investigates the … knowledge production function and intertemporal spillover effects using cointegration techniques. Time-series evidence suggests … there are two long-run cointegrating relationships. The first captures a long-run knowledge production function; the second …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005605296
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Pro-poor growth using non-income indicators : an empirical illustration for Colombia
Cardozo, Adriana R.; Grosse, Melanie - 2009
In this paper, we analyze how the distribution of selected non-income welfare indicators changed between 1997 and 2003 in Colombia. We use multidimensional pro-poor growth measurement techniques and create indices for assets, health, education, and subjective welfare using two alternative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003876512
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Declining trust in growing China : a dilemma between growth and socio-economic damage
Dai, Shuanping; Elsner, Wolfram - 2015
Declining general trust has become a serious social issue in China in recent years. This paper attempts to understand and analyze this social phenomenon from a social interaction perspective. Based on a repeated prisoners ́dilemma game on networks, it finds that the evolution of general trust...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010513367
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Who got what, then and now? : a fifty year overview from the Global Consumption and Income Project
Jayadev, Arjun; Lahoti, Rahul; Reddy, Sanjay - 2015 - This version: May 8, 2015
Using newly comprehensive data and tools from the Global Consumption and Income Project or CGIP, covering most of the world and five decades, we present a portrait of the changing global distribution of consumption and income and discuss its implications for our understanding of inequality,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010516605
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Causes and consequences of the financial crisis and the implications for a more resilient financial and economic system
Hein, Eckhard - 2016
The increasing dominance of finance starting in the late 1970s/early 1980s in the US and the UK, and somewhat later in other countries, was associated with two fundamental and structural processes generating the contradictions of this phase of development and finally the financial and economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011431645
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Monetary versus non-monetary pro-poor growth : evidence from rural Ethiopia between 2004 and 2009
Kacem, Rami Ben Haj - 2013
The aim of this paper is to contribute to the debate on the pro-poor growth measurement techniques using monetary versus non-monetary indicators. In this context, an alternative method for introducing non-monetary indicators into monetary pro-poor growth analysis is presented. The method is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009753012
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Monetary versus non-monetary pro-poor growth : evidence from rural Ethiopia between 2004 and 2009
Kacem, Rami Ben Haj - 2012
The aim of this paper is to contribute to the debate on the pro-poor growth measurement techniques using monetary versus non-monetary indicators. In this context, an alternative method for introducing non-monetary indicators into monetary pro-poor growth analysis is presented. The method is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009691268
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Rising inequalities in income and health in China : who is left behind?
Baeten, Steef; Van Ourti, Tom; Van Doorslaer, Eddy - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009722984
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Pro-poor growth using non-income indicators : an empirical illustration for Colombia
Cardozo, Adriana R.; Grosse, Melanie - 2009
In this paper, we analyze how the distribution of selected non-income welfare indicators changed between 1997 and 2003 in Colombia. We use multidimensional propoor growth measurement techniques and create indices for assets, health, education, and subjective welfare using two alternative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010255782