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Caribbean Growth in an International Perspective : The Role of Tourism and Size

Thacker, Nita - 2012

is explained more by a decline in productivity rather than a lack of investment. Second, tourism has been a significant … contributor to higher growth (through both capital accumulation and productivity) and lower output volatility, and in many … are islands have limited growth. Policies aimed at improving productivity, further development of the tourism sector, and …

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Japan out of the Lost Decade : Divine Wind or Firms’ Effort?

Tokutsu, Ichiro - 2012

supply factors such as productivity gains, materialized after long-fought restructuring efforts during the lost decade …

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Trends and Cycles in the U.S. Economy

International Monetary Fund - 1990

The IMF Working Papers series is designed to make IMF staff research available to a wide audience. Almost 300 Working Papers are released each year, covering a wide range of theoretical and analytical topics, including balance of payments, monetary and fiscal issues, global liquidity, and...

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International RandD Spillovers

Helpman, Elhanan - 1993

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Growth Accounting and Growth Processes

Aziz, Jahangir - 1996

The standard growth accounting framework, which weights various inputs by their factor shares to measure their contributions to output growth, is known to underestimate the contribution of inputs in the presence of externalities and increasing returns. This paper develops a model in which, in...

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Productivity Trends in India's Manufacturing Sectors in the Last Two Decades

Unel, Bulent - 2003

greater competition and at liberalizing key aspects of economic activity. This paper investigates productivity trends in India … productivity (TFP) growth in total manufacturing and many of the component sectors since 1980 were markedly higher than that in the … about factor elasticities and the assumed structure of the production function; (ii) productivity growth for total …

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The U.S. Dollar and the Trade Deficit : What Accounts for the Late 1990's?

Hunt, Ben - 2003

between the United States and the rest of the world, this paper asks to what extent an asymmetric productivity shock in the … second half of the 1990s. The paper concludes that the Balassa-Samuelson effect of such a productivity shock is only part of …

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International Trade and Productivity Growth : Exploring the Sectoral Effects for Developing Countries

Choudhri, Ehsan U. - 2000

pattern of international trade and production on the overall productivity growth of a developing country. A key result is that … productivity growth. The authors also find that a production-share weighted average of (technological leaders’) sectoral … productivity growth rates has a significant effect on the rate of aggregate productivity growth …

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The Great Contractions in Russia, the Baltics and the Other Countries of the Former Soviet Union : A View From the Supply Side

International Monetary Fund - 2000

collapsing investment and shrinking employment. Sharp declines in productivity, reflecting in part transition-related factors …

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Real Exchange Rates and Productivity : Closed-Form Solutions and Some Empirical Evidence

Begum, Jahanara - 2000

This paper examines the impact of productivity shocks on real exchange rate fluctuations in a dynamic international … statistically significant relationship exists between bilateral real exchange rates and international productivity differentials in …

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