What Makes Growth Sustained? /

We identify structural breaks in economic growth in 140 countries and use these to define "growth spells:" periods of high growth preceded by an upbreak and ending either with a downbreak or with the end of the sample. Growth spells tend to be shorter in African and Latin American countrie...

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Autore principale: Ostry, Jonathan
Altri autori: Berg, Andrew, Zettelmeyer, Jeromin
Natura: Periodico
Lingua:English
Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2008.
Serie:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2008/059
Accesso online:Full text available on IMF