Volume/Issue: 2009/225
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Boileau Loko
, and
Mame Astou Diouf
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
October
2009
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781451873726.001
ISBN: 9781451873726
This paper studies the main determinants of total factor productivity (TFP) growth using principal component analysis and a dynamic panel data model and, through a case study, explores key areas where accelerated r...
Volume/Issue: 2009/225
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Boileau Loko
, and
Mame Astou Diouf
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
October
2009
ISBN: 9781451873726
This paper studies the main determinants of total factor productivity (TFP) growth using principal component analysis and a dynamic panel data model and, through a case study, explores key areas where accelerated r...
Volume/Issue: 2007/130
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
June
2007
ISBN: 9781451866940
This paper undertakes a cross-country analysis of productivity growth at both the aggregate and sectoral level. It finds that Asia's remarkable output growth over the past 40 years reflected both high investment, a...
Volume/Issue: 2007/130
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
June
2007
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781451866940.001
ISBN: 9781451866940
This paper undertakes a cross-country analysis of productivity growth at both the aggregate and sectoral level. It finds that Asia's remarkable output growth over the past 40 years reflected both high investment, a...
Volume/Issue: 2004/171
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Poonam Gupta
, and
James Gordon
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
September
2004
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781451858532.001
ISBN: 9781451858532
This paper analyzes the factors behind the recent growth of India's services sector. The high growth of services output in the 1990s was mostly due to the rapid expansion of communication, banking, business service...
Volume/Issue: 2004/171
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Poonam Gupta
, and
James Gordon
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
September
2004
ISBN: 9781451858532
This paper analyzes the factors behind the recent growth of India's services sector. The high growth of services output in the 1990s was mostly due to the rapid expansion of communication, banking, business service...
Volume/Issue: 2000/153
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Esteban Jadresic
, and
Roberto Zahler
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
August
2000
ISBN: 9781451857146
Chile’s average economic growth between 1990 and 1998 was above 7 percent per year, more than double than in previous decades, and higher than in any other Latin American country in the same period. This pap...
Volume/Issue: 2000/153
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Esteban Jadresic
, and
Roberto Zahler
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
August
2000
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781451857146.001
ISBN: 9781451857146
Chile’s average economic growth between 1990 and 1998 was above 7 percent per year, more than double than in previous decades, and higher than in any other Latin American country in the same period. This pap...
Volume/Issue: 1999/108
Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
October
1999
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781451818772.002
ISBN: 9781451818772
This Selected Issues paper and Statistical Appendix on Ireland examines the productivity growth in Irish traded and nontraded goods, and provides some rough estimates of the sort of wage and inflation differentials...
Volume/Issue: 1999/108
Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
October
1999
ISBN: 9781451818772
This Selected Issues paper and Statistical Appendix on Ireland examines the productivity growth in Irish traded and nontraded goods, and provides some rough estimates of the sort of wage and inflation differentials...
Volume/Issue: 1999/108
Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
October
1999
ISBN: 9781451818772
This Selected Issues paper and Statistical Appendix on Ireland examines the productivity growth in Irish traded and nontraded goods, and provides some rough estimates of the sort of wage and inflation differentials...
Volume/Issue: 1999/108
Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
October
1999
ISBN: 9781451818772
This Selected Issues paper and Statistical Appendix on Ireland examines the productivity growth in Irish traded and nontraded goods, and provides some rough estimates of the sort of wage and inflation differentials...
Volume/Issue: 1999/108
Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
October
1999
ISBN: 9781451818772
This Selected Issues paper and Statistical Appendix on Ireland examines the productivity growth in Irish traded and nontraded goods, and provides some rough estimates of the sort of wage and inflation differentials...
Volume/Issue: 1999/108
Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
October
1999
ISBN: 9781451818772
This Selected Issues paper and Statistical Appendix on Ireland examines the productivity growth in Irish traded and nontraded goods, and provides some rough estimates of the sort of wage and inflation differentials...
Volume/Issue: 1997/177
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Paula De Masi
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
December
1997
ISBN: 9781451974980
The concepts of potential output and the output gap are central to the IMF’s analytical work in providing policy recommendations to member governments. This key role has stimulated research at the IMF to dev...
Volume/Issue: 1997/177
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Paula De Masi
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
December
1997
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781451974980.001
ISBN: 9781451974980
The concepts of potential output and the output gap are central to the IMF’s analytical work in providing policy recommendations to member governments. This key role has stimulated research at the IMF to dev...
Volume/Issue: 1997/161
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Ceyla Pazarbasioglu
, and
Claudia Dziobek
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
December
1997
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781451857788.001
ISBN: 9781451857788
In recent decades, a wide range of countries have experienced banking problems. Their approaches to systemic bank restructuring have varied substantially. This paper analyzes a representative sample of 24 countries...
Volume/Issue: 1997/161
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Ceyla Pazarbasioglu
, and
Claudia Dziobek
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
December
1997
ISBN: 9781451857788
In recent decades, a wide range of countries have experienced banking problems. Their approaches to systemic bank restructuring have varied substantially. This paper analyzes a representative sample of 24 countries...
Series: Economic Issues
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
29
September
1997
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781557756435.051
ISBN: 9781557756435
Over the past 25 years, the share of employment accouted for bymanufacturing has fallen dramatically in the world's most advanced economies, a phenomenon widely referred to as "deindustrialization."Many see deindus...
Series: Economic Issues
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
29
September
1997
ISBN: 9781557756435
During the past 25 years, employment in manufacturing as a share of total employment has fallen dramatically in the world’s most advanced economies, a phenomenon widely referred to as “deindustrialization.”...
Series: Economic Issues
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
29
September
1997
ISBN: 9781557756435
Over the past 25 years, the share of employment accouted for bymanufacturing has fallen dramatically in the world's most advanced economies, a phenomenon widely referred to as "deindustrialization."Many see deindus...
Series: Economic Issues
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
29
September
1997
ISBN: 9781557756435
Over the past 25 years, the share of employment accouted for bymanufacturing has fallen dramatically in the world's most advanced economies, a phenomenon widely referred to as "deindustrialization."Many see deindus...
Volume/Issue: 1997/42
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Ramana Ramaswamy
, and
Bob Rowthorn
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
April
1997
ISBN: 9781451975826
All advanced economies have experienced a secular decline in the share of manufacturing employment—a phenomenon referred to as deindustrialization. This paper argues that, contrary to popular perceptions, de...
Volume/Issue: 1997/42
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Ramana Ramaswamy
, and
Bob Rowthorn
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
April
1997
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781451975826.001
ISBN: 9781451975826
All advanced economies have experienced a secular decline in the share of manufacturing employment—a phenomenon referred to as deindustrialization. This paper argues that, contrary to popular perceptions, de...
Volume/Issue: 1994/144
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Elhanan Helpman
,
David Coe
, and
Alexander Hoffmaister
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
December
1994
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781451856385.001
ISBN: 9781451856385
We examine the extent to which developing countries that do little, if any, research and development themselves benefit from R&D that is performed in the industrial countries. By trading with an industrial c...
Volume/Issue: 1994/144
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Elhanan Helpman
,
David Coe
, and
Alexander Hoffmaister
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
December
1994
ISBN: 9781451856385
We examine the extent to which developing countries that do little, if any, research and development themselves benefit from R&D that is performed in the industrial countries. By trading with an industrial c...
Volume/Issue: 1990/44
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
May
1990
ISBN: 9781451974539
A study by the author published in 1988 proposed the hypothesis that export instability depends upon the level of industrialization of the exporting country and the position of exports in the product cycle (growth...
Volume/Issue: 1990/44
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
May
1990
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781451974539.001
ISBN: 9781451974539
A study by the author published in 1988 proposed the hypothesis that export instability depends upon the level of industrialization of the exporting country and the position of exports in the product cycle (growth...
