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Structural transformation and sources of growth in Turkey

Kaya, Ahmet Ihsan; Çiçekçi, Cumhur - 2023

This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the supply and demand side of structural transformation in Turkey. Using the GGDC/UNU-WIDER Economic Transformation Database, we find that labour productivity improvements explain more than half of economic growth in the period 1980-2021. This is...

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Data and Dogma : The Great Indian Poverty Debate

Deaton, Angus; Kozel, Valerie - 2014

What happened to poverty in India in the 1990s has been fiercely debated, politically and statistically. The Indian …. The effects on poverty remain controversial, and the official numbers published by the Government of India, showing a … reduction are too optimistic, particularly for rural India. This overoptimism was amplified by statistical uncertainty that …

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China's March to Prosperity: Reforms to Avoid the Middle-income Trap

Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Hill, Sam - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013

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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Economic Growth in Asia: Determinants and Prospects

Lee, Jong-Wha; Hong, Kiseok - Economics and Research Department, Asian Development Bank - 2010

Using a growth accounting framework, we find that developing Asia grew rapidly over the past 3 decades mainly due to robust growth in capital accumulation. The contributions of education and total factor productivity in the region’s past economic growth remain relatively limited. Our baseline...

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Growing like China

Song, Zheng Michael; Storesletten, Kjetil; Zilibotti, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

This paper constructs a growth model that is consistent with salient features of the Chinese growth experience since 1992: high output growth, sustained returns on capital investments, extensive reallocation within the manufacturing sector, falling labor share and accumulation of a large foreign...

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China’s Economic Growth 1978-2025: What We Know Today about China’s Economic Growth Tomorrow

Holz, Carsten A. - EconWPA - 2005

Views of the future China vary widely. While some believe that the collapse of China is inevitable, others see the emergence of a new superpower that increasingly poses a threat to the U.S. This paper examines the economic growth prospects of China over the next two decades. Extrapolating past...

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Total Factor Productivity and Economic Growth - Issues for Asia

Dowling, M.; Summers, P.M. - Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics - 1997

Despite these disagreements about the nature of the role of government, particularly in Taiwan and Korea, the pattern of economic growth and structural change observed in developing Asia has been broadly consistent with classical and neoclassical models of economic growth and development which...

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Economic growth in Asia: Determinants and prospects

Lee, Jong-Wha; Hong, Kiseok - In: Japan and the World Economy 24 (2012) 2, pp. 101-113

Using a growth accounting framework, we find that developing Asia grew rapidly over the past three decades mainly due to robust growth in capital accumulation. The contributions of education and total factor productivity in the region's past economic growth remain relatively limited. We also...

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China’s Economic Growth 1978-2025: What We Know Today about China’s Economic Growth Tomorrow

Holz, Carsten A - EconWPA - 2005

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Total Factor Productivity and Economic Growth in Indonesia

Eng, Pierre van der - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2009

This paper revisits the discussion about the contribution of Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth to Indonesia’s economic growth during 1970-2007. It re-estimates the contribution of TFP to economic growth during this period on the basis of new estimates of GDP, capital stock,...

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