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The Pillars of Potential Growth and the Role of Policy: A Panel Data Approach
(Asian Development Bank, 2016-05-30)
Potential output growth generally decelerated after the global financial crisis during 2008–2009. This paper examines the possible determinants of potential output growth using Bayesian Model Averaging and assesses how the determinants can be used to ...
An Analysis of the Philippine Business Process Outsourcing Industry
(Asian Development Bank, 2007-03-01)
"Nedelyn Magtibay-Ramos, Gemma Estrada, and Jesus Felipe provide an analysis of the business process outsourcing (BPO) industry in the Philippines. The paper provides a profile of the BPO sector; makes comparisons with other large BPO providers; and ...
Rethinking the Growth Diagnostics Approach: Questions from the Practitioners
(Asian Development Bank, 2008-11-01)
The growth diagnostics methodology pioneered by Hausmann et al. (2005)
is becoming a key piece of the toolkit for donor agencies in formulate their
operational strategies. This paper aims at clarifying the primary objectives of the
approach, highlighting ...
Why are Some Countries Richer than Others? A Reassessment of Mankiw-Romer-Weil's Test of the Neoclassical Growth Model
(Asian Development Bank, 2002-08-01)
"This paper provides evidence of a problem with the influential testing and assessment of Solow’s (1956) growth model proposed by Mankiw et al. (1992) and a series of subsequent papers evaluating the latter. First, the assumption of a common rate of ...
Benchmarking Developing Asia's Manufacturing Sector
(Asian Development Bank, 2007-09-01)
This paper documents the transformation of developing Asia’s manufacturing sector during the last three decades and benchmarks its share in GDP with respect to the international regression line by estimating a logistic regression.
Competitiveness, Income Distribution, and Growth in the Philippines: What Does the Long-run Evidence Show?
(Asian Development Bank, 2004-06-01)
This paper considers unit labor costs (ulcs), i.e., the ratio of the wage rate to labor productivity, as the indicator of competitiveness in the Philippines. It is shown that ulcs have an interpretation from the point of view of the functional distribution ...