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productivity (MFP) convergence in a panel of 42 countries. The OECD long-term growth model is augmented to show that, in addition …
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-convergence trap" long before the euro years. We also provide stylised facts on: (i) the central role of total factor productivity in …
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This paper provides an assessment of Russia's long-term growth prospects. In particular, it addresses the question of the medium- and long-term sustainability of the country's currently high growth rates. Starting from the notion that Russia's fast economic expansion in recent years has...
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This paper analyses real income convergence in central, eastern and south-eastern Europe (CESEE) to the most advanced EU economies between 2000 and 2016. The relevance of this topic stems both from the far-reaching implications of real income convergence for economic welfare and the importance...
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institutions, framework condition policies and policies specifically related to labour markets and drivers of productivity and …
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This paper presents the results from a new model for projecting growth of OECD and major non-OECD economies over the next 50 years as well as imbalances that arise. A baseline scenario assuming gradual structural reform and fiscal consolidation to stabilise government-debt-to GDP ratios is...
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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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Based on the expectation that the intensified use of robots contributes to the growth of labour productivity, this …-ICT capital input contribute significantly to labour productivity growth in the period from 1995 to 2015. The results remain …, the model is used to assess the impact of an increase of robots use on the labour productivity in each of the 9 …
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The Great Recession and the subsequent period of subdued GDP growth in most advanced economies have highlighted the need for macroeconomic forecasters to account for sudden and deep recessions, periods of higher macroeconomic volatility, and fluctuations in trend GDP growth. In this paper, we...
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direct investment, imports of productivity-enhancing technology - are petering out, and are yet to be substituted. We propose …
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