Structural Reforms and Productivity Growth in Emerging Market and Developing Economies

This paper empirically assesses the role of structural and institutional reforms in driving productivity growth across countries at different stages of development, using a distance-to-frontier framework. It gauges whether particular policies and reforms matter more for increasing productivity growt...

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Main Author: Dabla-Norris, Era
Other Authors: Ho, Giang, Kyobe, Annette
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. International Monetary Fund 2016
Series:IMF Working Papers
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653 |a Income 
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653 |a Cross-Country Output Convergence 
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653 |a Agricultural economics 
653 |a Occupational Choice 
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520 |a This paper empirically assesses the role of structural and institutional reforms in driving productivity growth across countries at different stages of development, using a distance-to-frontier framework. It gauges whether particular policies and reforms matter more for increasing productivity growth at the aggregate and sectoral levels for some emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs) than others. Recognizing the possibility of time lags between reform implementation and reform payoffs, the paper also examines how productivity gains from various reforms evolve over the the short- and medium-term