Comment on 'It's Not Factor Accumulation : Stylized Facts and Growth Models,' by William Easterly and Ross Levine
William Easterly and Ross Levine document five stylized facts about growth and argue that they imply a bigger role for total factor productivity (tfp) and technology than for physical and human capital. The reader agrees with the first four of thei...
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Format: | Journal Article |
Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC: World Bank
2014
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Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2001/05/17737131/comment-not-factor-accumulation-stylized-facts-growth-models-william-easterly-ross-levine-learned-decade-empirical-research-growth http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17441 |
Summary: | William Easterly and Ross Levine
document five stylized facts about growth and argue that
they imply a bigger role for total factor productivity (tfp)
and technology than for physical and human capital. The
reader agrees with the first four of their facts and
believes facts one and three provide strong support for
their conclusion that tfp should be the focus of growth research. |
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