Economic Growth and Total Factor Productivity in Niger /

This paper investigates empirically the sources of aggregate output growth and the determinants of total factor productivity (TFP) in Niger between 1963 and 2003. A growth accounting analysis indicates that the erosion in output per capita over the sample period is due to the negative growth of both...

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Auteur principal: Nachega, Jean-Claude
Autres auteurs: Fontaine, Thomson
Format: Revue
Langue:English
Publié: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2006.
Collection:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2006/208
Accès en ligne:Full text available on IMF
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