TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cherif,Reda
AU  - Arezki,Rabah
AU  - Cherif,Reda
TI  - Development Accounting and the Rise of TFP
T2  - IMF Working Papers; Working Paper
SN  - 145198278X :
SN  - 1018-5941
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - International Monetary Fund
KW  - Covariance
KW  - imf
KW  - Development Accounting
KW  - Economic Growth
KW  - Explanatory Power
KW  - Income Differences
KW  - Logarithm
N2  - The paper presents evidence that the contribution of differences in total factor productivity (TFP) to income differences across countries steadily increased between 1970 and 2000. We verify that our finding is neither imputable to measurement errors in input factors nor dependent on the assumption of factor neutral differences in technology. We conclude that theories explaining cross-country income differences based on institutions or on forces that are constant over time, such as geography or legal origin, should be reconsidered in the light of their consistency with the rise of the explanatory power of TFP
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