Honduras's Growth Performance During 1970-1997

January 1, 1999

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V. Hugo Juan-Ramon Honduras's Growth Performance During 1970-1997, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1999) accessed December 26, 2024

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Summary

For more than three decades, Honduras’s average annual growth in real per capita GDP has been almost zero and highly uneven, even though its total investment-to-GDP ratio has been relatively large. This paper argues that policy and efficiency variables seem to have had less of an influence on growth in Honduras than they had on other countries. Instead, lack of growth can be attributed to the offsetting negative influence of low labor and capital productivity, which result from deficient levels of human capital and inadequate composition of investment. Other constraints to growth in Honduras include inadequate physical and institutional infrastructures.

Subject: Education, Gross capital formation, Gross fixed investment, National accounts, Population and demographics, Private investment

Keywords: Case in Honduras, Experience of Honduras, GDP, Gross capital formation, Gross fixed investment, Growth, Growth performance, Honduras, Honduras's percentage, Honduras's policy, Human capital, Input productivity, Investment composition, Low level, Marginal productivity, PDP, Policy-related variable, Private investment, Productivity of labor, Productivity of the labor force, Rate of return

Publication Details

Pages:

25
Volume:

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Series:

Policy Discussion Paper No. 1999/001
Stock No:

PPIEA0011999
ISBN:

9781451974874
ISSN:

1564-5193

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