The Sources of Economic Growth in OECD Countries / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

Contributor:

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Content Provider.

Scarpetta, Stefano.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Industrial productivity--OECD countries.

Industrial productivity.

OECD countries--Economic policy.

OECD countries.

OECD countries--Economic conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 p.)

Place of Publication:

Paris : OECD Publishing, 2003.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Policy Settings, Institutions and Aggregate Economic Growth

Summary and Policy Conclusions

Economic Growth: the Aggregate Evidence

Annexes

What Drives Productivity Growth at the Industry Level?

Firm Dynamics, Productivity and Policy Settings.

Notes:

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

"The principal author and editor of this book was Stefano Scarpetta"-- Page 5.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-248).

ISBN:

1-280-08372-7

9786610083725

92-64-19946-2

OCLC:

326526931