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Factor Endowment, Structural Coherence, and Economic Growth

By Natasha X Che

June 1, 2012

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Natasha X Che. Factor Endowment, Structural Coherence, and Economic Growth, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2012) accessed November 21, 2024
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This paper studies the linkage between structural coherence and economic growth. Structural coherence is defined as the degree that a country's industrial structure optimally reflects its factor endowment fundamentals. The paper found that at least for the overall capital, the shares of capital intensive industries were significantly bigger with higher initial capital endowment and faster capital accumulation. Moreover, there is a positive relationship between a country's aggregate output growth and the degree of structural coherence. Quantitatively, the structural coherence with respect to the overall capital explains about 30% of the growth differential among sample countries.

Subject: Capital productivity, Employment, Human capital, Information technology in revenue administration, Labor, Production, Revenue administration, Total factor productivity

Keywords: Aggregate output, Capital Accumulation, Capital endowment, Capital intensity, Capital productivity, Dependent variable, Economic Growth, Employment, Europe, Factor Endowment, Growth rate, Human capital, Information technology in revenue administration, Output share, Resource allocation, Share regression, Structural Change, Structural Coherence, Total factor productivity, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    42

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2012/165

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA2012165

  • ISBN:

    9781475505139

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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