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Title

The sources of economic growth in OECD countries.

Publication

Paris : OECD, c2003.

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Additional Authors

• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
• Scarpetta, Stefano.

Description

248 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

Understand growth disparities between OECD countries over the past twenty years through identification and analysis of underlying factors. Growth patterns through the 1990s and into this decade have turned received wisdom on its head. For most of the post-war period, OECD countries with relatively low GDP per capita grew faster than richer countries. Since the late 1990s, however, that pattern has broken down with the United States notably drawing further ahead of the field. This publication provides a comprehensive overview of growth drivers across the OECD and the extent to which disparities are attributable to factors like new technology and R&D, macroeconomic policy, education and training, labour market flexibility, product market competition, and barriers to business start-up and closure.

Subject

• Industrial productivity > OECD countries
• OECD countries > Economic conditions
• OECD countries > Economic policy
• Regional economic disparities
• Technological innovations > Economic aspects > OECD countries

Note

• Also published in French with the title: Les sources de la croissance économique dans les pays de l'OCDE.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-248).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Summary and Policy Conclusions -- Economic Growth: the Aggregate Evidence -- Policy Settings, Institutions and Aggregate Economic Growth -- What Drives Productivity Growth at the Industry Level? -- Firm Dynamics, Productivity and Policy Settings -- Annexes.

ISBN

9264199454

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Harvard Library