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Fleisher, Belton M.; McGuire, William; Smith, Adam Nicholas - 2013

income trap" as China exhausts the benefits of international technology transfer. IKC is productivity-enhancing among Chinese …

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Chapter 10 Explaining cross-country income differences

McGrattan, Ellen R.; Schmitz, James A. - In: Handbook of macroeconomics : volume 1, part A, (pp. 669-737). 1999

This chapter reviews the literature that tries to explain the disparity and variation of GDP per worker and GDP per capita across countries and across time. There are many potential explanations for the different patterns of development across countries, including differences in luck, raw...

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New economy in growth and development

Pohjola, Matti - 2002

The benefits from the New Economy should accrue as improvements in productivity and economic growth. But while the use … apparent ‘productivity paradox’. The most obvious one is the fact that not many countries, other than the US, have yet invested …

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Chapter 6. Twentieth Century Growth

Crafts, Nicholas; O’Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj - 2014

This paper surveys the experience of economic growth in the 20th century with a focus on technological change at the frontier together with issues related to success and failure in catch-up growth. A detailed account of growth performance based on historical national accounts data is given and...

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Appropriate technology, human capital and development accounting

Chanda, Areendam; Farkas, Beatrice - 2012

role of total factor productivity (TFP) gaps as opposed to factor accumulation. Nevertheless, it is a widely held belief … direct contribution of factors of production. -- Development accounting ; total factor productivity ; technology …

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Explaining Inequality between Countries : The Declining Role of Political Institutions

Hussey, Andrew - 2017

Within the fundamental determinants of cross-country income inequality, ‘humanly devised' political institutions represent a hallmark factor that societies can influence, as opposed to, for example, geography. Focusing on the portion of inequality explainable by differences in political...

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International trade, direct investment, and the skill differential in general equilibrium

Eckel, Carsten - 1998

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The Dynamics of Catch-Up and Skill and Technology Upgrading in China

Funke, Michael - 2012

This paper accounts for China's economic growth since 1980 in a unified endogenous growth model in which a sequencing of physical capital accumulation, human capital accumulation and innovation drives the rise in China's aggregate income. The first stage is characterized by physical capital...

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Growth Factors in Developed Countries : A 1960-2019 Growth Accounting Decomposition

Cette, Gilbert; Vincent, Devillard; Spiezia, Vincenzo - 2020

accounting approach shows that the main drivers of labor productivity growth over the whole 1960-2019 period appear to be TFP …, although we do not estimate its effect on TFP. The contribution of robots to productivity growth through the two channels … ‘others’ in the capital deepening and the TFP productivity channels …

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Macroeconomic and Technological Dynamics : A Structuralist-Keynesian Cumulative Growth Model

Guarini, Giulio - 2018

productivity is both an input of the growth process, influencing macroeconomic dynamics, and a consequence of growth, because …-Keynesian cumulative growth model driven by the dynamic interaction between the demand regime and the productivity regime. The model … specifies the role of labour productivity and unit labour costs in the macroeconomic and technological dynamics. The results …

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