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indicate a positive correlation between ICT implementation and economic growth in Mexico. To answer whether ICT may be a key … strategy for economic growth in the Mexican economy is the main purpose of this work. …
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Harberger's 'A Vision of the Growth Process', Presidential Address at the 1998 Annual Meeting of the American Economic … industries. According to Harberger, this is because the effect of broad externalities - such as those linked to the growth of the … negligible as compared to industry- and firm-specific causes of productivity growth. The argument is that, if growth was driven …
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the accumulation of public and foreign debts as well as relatively low overall growth - features that characterize the … exit from the crisis and the resumption of growth. …
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iron curtain. Applying the recently released EU KLEMS database on sectoral growth and productivity measures, we study the … also striking similarities in terms of industrial structure. Beginning witha brief account of aggregate growth and its … sucessfully specialised in higher-tech sectors which might be explained by high productivity growth rates in these sectors. …
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of atypically rapid growth of total factor productivity (TFP) relative to levels in OECD countries, and that the rise in …
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We review the growth experience of middle-income countries. Economic factors associated with growth appear to differ … between middle income and other countries. The efficiency of the financial system is importantly related to the growth rate in …
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Productivity performance in European countries has been a policy concern for some time. This paper shows that productivity can be enhanced by product market policies which, by increasing competition and efficiency, facilitate higher rates of firms' entry and exit (i.e., firm churning). Drawing...
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The current productivity slowdown has stimulated research on the causes of growth. We investigate here the proximate … determinants of long-term growth in Spain. Over the last 170 years output per hour worked raised nearly 24-fold dominating GDP … growth, while hours worked per person shrank by one-fourth and population trebled. Half of labour productivity growth …
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– together with standard growth models to frame the role of religion in economic growth. Unifying a growing literature, we argue … that religion can enhance or impinge upon economic growth through all four elements because it shapes individual …
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—together with standard growth models to frame the role of religion in economic growth. Unifying a growing literature, we argue that … religion can enhance or impinge upon economic growth through all four elements because it shapes individual preferences …
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