Puzzles of Economic Growth

Looking at the economic growth of seemingly similar countries one can find striking differences. Why has Australia gotten so much ahead of New Zealand, in spite of the latter being held up as a paragon of free market reform? How is it possible that...

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Main Authors: Balcerowicz, Leszek, Rzonca, Andrzej
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Language:English
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Published: Washington, DC: World Bank 2014
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spelling okr-10986-206012021-04-23T14:03:59Z Puzzles of Economic Growth Balcerowicz, Leszek Rzonca, Andrzej Balcerowicz, Leszek Rzonca, Andrzej ACCELERATED ECONOMIC GROWTH ANALYSIS OF ECONOMIC GROWTH ANNUAL ECONOMIC GROWTH BALANCED ECONOMIC GROWTH BUSINESS CYCLE BUSINESS CYCLES CAPITAL FORMATION CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURE ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC GROWTH RATE ECONOMIC GROWTH PERFORMANCE ECONOMIC GROWTH RATES ENDOGENOUS GROWTH THEORY FAST ECONOMIC GROWTH FINAL CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURE GDP GROWTH GDP PER CAPITA GDP DEFLATOR GDP GROWTH RATES GDP GROWTH RATE GLOBAL ECONOMIC GROWTH GNP GNP PER CAPITA GOVERNMENT FINAL CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURE GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT GROWTH RATE GROWTH RATES GROWTH MODEL GROWTH ACCOUNTING GROWTH ANALYSIS GROWTH DIAGNOSTICS GROWTH MODEL GROWTH THEORIES LONG-TERM ECONOMIC GROWTH MODERN ECONOMIC GROWTH NATIONAL INCOME NEOCLASSICAL GROWTH MODEL PER CAPITA INCOME PER CAPITA INCOME GROWTH RAPID ECONOMIC GROWTH RATE OF GROWTH REAL GDP STABLE ECONOMIC GROWTH SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC GROWTH TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE TFP TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY INSTITUTIONAL ECONOMICS INNOVATION-BASED GROWTH SPECIAL GROWTH MECHANISMS DIVERGENCE CONVERGENCE CATCHING UP SHOCKS BREAKOUTS CRISES GROWTH COLLAPSES INSTITUTIONS STRUCTURAL REFORMS FISCAL POLICY MONETARY POLICY COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS GROWTH THEORY POLITICAL ECONOMY Looking at the economic growth of seemingly similar countries one can find striking differences. Why has Australia gotten so much ahead of New Zealand, in spite of the latter being held up as a paragon of free market reform? How is it possible that Austria, with its persistently oversized state enterprise sector, has managed to (nearly) catch up with Switzerland? How can we account for the differences in economic growth between Estonia and Slovenia, and which of these two countries has been more successful at systemic transformation? Why is Mexico so much poorer than Spain, despite having been wealthier all the way into the 1960s? Why has Venezuela, which in 1950 had a per capita income higher than that of Norway and remains a major exporter of oil, slipped behind Chile? Why is Costa Rica lagging behind Puerto Rico, even though in the 1970s the U.S. territory's fast development slowed to a crawl and is now far below other comparable island economies? Why has 'communist' China outstripped 'capitalist' India? Why has Pakistan's growth lagged behind that of Indonesia, even though the latter suffered one of the deepest crises in world economic history in the years 1997-98? Why, even before the 2010 earthquake, the Dominican Republic has been visited by several dozen times more tourists than Haiti, despite being situated on the same island? This book strives to answer these (and many other) questions. They are all part of a broader question that we wish to address: how do differences in economic growth arise? 2014-12-02T21:51:05Z 2014-12-02T21:51:05Z 2015 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/11/20459000/puzzles-economic-growth 978-1-4648-0325-3 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/20601 English en_US Directions in Development--Public Sector Governance; CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ Washington, DC: World Bank Publications & Research :: Publication
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topic ACCELERATED ECONOMIC GROWTH
ANALYSIS OF ECONOMIC GROWTH
ANNUAL ECONOMIC GROWTH
BALANCED ECONOMIC GROWTH
BUSINESS CYCLE
BUSINESS CYCLES
CAPITAL FORMATION
CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURE
ECONOMIC GROWTH
ECONOMIC GROWTH RATE
ECONOMIC GROWTH PERFORMANCE
ECONOMIC GROWTH RATES
ENDOGENOUS GROWTH THEORY
FAST ECONOMIC GROWTH
FINAL CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURE
GDP GROWTH
GDP PER CAPITA
GDP DEFLATOR
GDP GROWTH RATES
GDP GROWTH RATE
GLOBAL ECONOMIC GROWTH
GNP
GNP PER CAPITA
GOVERNMENT FINAL CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURE
GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT
GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT
GROWTH RATE
GROWTH RATES
GROWTH MODEL
GROWTH ACCOUNTING
GROWTH ANALYSIS
GROWTH DIAGNOSTICS
GROWTH MODEL
GROWTH THEORIES
LONG-TERM ECONOMIC GROWTH
MODERN ECONOMIC GROWTH
NATIONAL INCOME
NEOCLASSICAL GROWTH MODEL
PER CAPITA INCOME
PER CAPITA INCOME GROWTH
RAPID ECONOMIC GROWTH
RATE OF GROWTH
REAL GDP
STABLE ECONOMIC GROWTH
SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC GROWTH
TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE
TFP
TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY
INSTITUTIONAL ECONOMICS
INNOVATION-BASED GROWTH
SPECIAL GROWTH MECHANISMS
DIVERGENCE
CONVERGENCE
CATCHING UP
SHOCKS
BREAKOUTS
CRISES
GROWTH COLLAPSES
INSTITUTIONS
STRUCTURAL REFORMS
FISCAL POLICY
MONETARY POLICY
COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS
GROWTH THEORY
POLITICAL ECONOMY
spellingShingle ACCELERATED ECONOMIC GROWTH
ANALYSIS OF ECONOMIC GROWTH
ANNUAL ECONOMIC GROWTH
BALANCED ECONOMIC GROWTH
BUSINESS CYCLE
BUSINESS CYCLES
CAPITAL FORMATION
CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURE
ECONOMIC GROWTH
ECONOMIC GROWTH RATE
ECONOMIC GROWTH PERFORMANCE
ECONOMIC GROWTH RATES
ENDOGENOUS GROWTH THEORY
FAST ECONOMIC GROWTH
FINAL CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURE
GDP GROWTH
GDP PER CAPITA
GDP DEFLATOR
GDP GROWTH RATES
GDP GROWTH RATE
GLOBAL ECONOMIC GROWTH
GNP
GNP PER CAPITA
GOVERNMENT FINAL CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURE
GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT
GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT
GROWTH RATE
GROWTH RATES
GROWTH MODEL
GROWTH ACCOUNTING
GROWTH ANALYSIS
GROWTH DIAGNOSTICS
GROWTH MODEL
GROWTH THEORIES
LONG-TERM ECONOMIC GROWTH
MODERN ECONOMIC GROWTH
NATIONAL INCOME
NEOCLASSICAL GROWTH MODEL
PER CAPITA INCOME
PER CAPITA INCOME GROWTH
RAPID ECONOMIC GROWTH
RATE OF GROWTH
REAL GDP
STABLE ECONOMIC GROWTH
SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC GROWTH
TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE
TFP
TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY
INSTITUTIONAL ECONOMICS
INNOVATION-BASED GROWTH
SPECIAL GROWTH MECHANISMS
DIVERGENCE
CONVERGENCE
CATCHING UP
SHOCKS
BREAKOUTS
CRISES
GROWTH COLLAPSES
INSTITUTIONS
STRUCTURAL REFORMS
FISCAL POLICY
MONETARY POLICY
COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS
GROWTH THEORY
POLITICAL ECONOMY
Balcerowicz, Leszek
Rzonca, Andrzej
Puzzles of Economic Growth
relation Directions in Development--Public Sector Governance;
description Looking at the economic growth of seemingly similar countries one can find striking differences. Why has Australia gotten so much ahead of New Zealand, in spite of the latter being held up as a paragon of free market reform? How is it possible that Austria, with its persistently oversized state enterprise sector, has managed to (nearly) catch up with Switzerland? How can we account for the differences in economic growth between Estonia and Slovenia, and which of these two countries has been more successful at systemic transformation? Why is Mexico so much poorer than Spain, despite having been wealthier all the way into the 1960s? Why has Venezuela, which in 1950 had a per capita income higher than that of Norway and remains a major exporter of oil, slipped behind Chile? Why is Costa Rica lagging behind Puerto Rico, even though in the 1970s the U.S. territory's fast development slowed to a crawl and is now far below other comparable island economies? Why has 'communist' China outstripped 'capitalist' India? Why has Pakistan's growth lagged behind that of Indonesia, even though the latter suffered one of the deepest crises in world economic history in the years 1997-98? Why, even before the 2010 earthquake, the Dominican Republic has been visited by several dozen times more tourists than Haiti, despite being situated on the same island? This book strives to answer these (and many other) questions. They are all part of a broader question that we wish to address: how do differences in economic growth arise?
author2 Balcerowicz, Leszek
author_facet Balcerowicz, Leszek
Balcerowicz, Leszek
Rzonca, Andrzej
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author Balcerowicz, Leszek
Rzonca, Andrzej
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title Puzzles of Economic Growth
title_short Puzzles of Economic Growth
title_full Puzzles of Economic Growth
title_fullStr Puzzles of Economic Growth
title_full_unstemmed Puzzles of Economic Growth
title_sort puzzles of economic growth
publisher Washington, DC: World Bank
publishDate 2014
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/11/20459000/puzzles-economic-growth
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/20601
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