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This paper investigates the relationship between firm restructuring and international competition in Bulgaria during …
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the rate of technical change for Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria and Rumania. Although the pooling eliminated … Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and Rumania and somewhat lower, but still respectable (3 - 5 per cent) in the case of Poland and Hungary. It … of total factor productivity over time we found that Czechoslovakia, Poland and Bulgaria experienced a quite considerably …
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This paper explores the business cycle in Bulgaria and the Baltic countries: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania during the … crucial for the output performance throughout the period in Bulgaria and the Baltic countries, a finding that has important …
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allocation, employs growth accounting in Bulgaria relative to a frontier country (Germany), and tries to explain the Total Factor … better and a "catching up" effect of Bulgaria’s Total Factor Productivity levels towards those of Germany has been observed …. Finally, the study provides policy recommendations facilitating the Invisible Hand Process in Bulgaria for a more rapid …
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allocation, employs growth accounting in Bulgaria relative to a frontier country (Germany), and tries to explain the Total Factor … better and a "catching up" effect of Bulgaria's Total Factor Productivity levels towards those of Germany has been observed …. Finally, the study provides policy recommendations facilitating the Invisible Hand Process in Bulgaria for a more rapid …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011660207
This Selected Issues paper on Morocco analyzes Morocco’s growth performance over the past thirty-five years with a special focus on the more recent past. The paper presents stylized trends in growth; it first puts the overall growth performance of Morocco in an international perspective,...
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This Selected Issues paper analyzes economic growth in Iran. It uses a growth-accounting exercise to quantify the historical sources of growth over 1960–2002, including human capital accumulation and the contribution of Total Factor Productivity to growth. The paper presents an empirical...
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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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This paper investigates the role played by total factor productivity (TFP) in the tradable and nontradable sectors of the United States, the euro area, and Japan in the emergence and evolution of today's global trade imbalances. Simulation results based on a dynamic general equilibrium model of...
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Swiss growth performance in the past quarter century has been mediocre. The paper finds that conditional income convergence contributes significantly to slow growth and the poor performance of the domestically oriented sectors has been a drag on growth. However, slow growth is not inescapable....
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