We present new investment data and revised growth accounts for three socialist economies between 1950 and 1989 …. Government statistics reported distorted measures for both the rate and trajectory of productivity growth in Czechoslovakia … input, or estimated capital stock from official investment data. Investment levels and rates of capital accumulations were …

. Potential growth will rely more on the pace of capital deepening and productivity growth. Lifting both may require successful … implementation of the infrastructure investment program, higher domestic saving, and structural reforms. …

around 3¼ percent, but growth could reach 4-5 percent with strong pro-active policies including (i) improving investment and … savings rates; (ii) improving the efficiency of social spending and public enterprise reforms; (iii) investment in education … productivity. With policies capable of generating 5 percent growth, Mauritius could reach high-income status in 2021, 4 years …

foreign. Moreover, the high sectoral growth in total factor productivity (TFP) in the ICT sector contributes only moderately … deepening to sectoral labor productivity growth during the late 1990s, especially for the knowledge‐intensive services that are … used to an important extent as intermediate inputs to other sectors. Our approach traces labor productivity growth not …

sectoral growth in total factor productivity (TFP) in the ICT sector contributes only moderately to TFP growth in non-ICT value … productivity improvements not within sectors but within value chains. It allows judging in a better way to what extent more or … result is that more than half of the productivity gains related to ICT capital deepening for manufactured goods are …