Sri Lanka's Sources of Growth /

This paper uses the growth accounting framework to assess Sri Lanka's sources of growth. It finds that while labor was the dominant factor contributing to growth in the 1980s, labor's contribution declined over time and was overtaken, to a large extent, by total factor productivity (TFP) a...

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Autor principal: Braiton, Nombulelo
Format: Revista
Idioma:English
Publicat: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2007.
Col·lecció:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2007/225
Accés en línia:Full text available on IMF
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