Paradise Lost? : Growth, Convergence and Migration in the South Pacific /

This paper examines the determinants of growth for nine South Pacific countries during the period 1971-93, using the analytical framework of the Solow-Swan neoclassical growth model. Chamberlain's II-matrix estimator is used to account for unobserved country-specific heterogeneity in the growth...

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主要作者: Loayza, Norman
其他作者: Cashin, Paul
格式: 雜誌
語言:English
出版: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1995.
叢編:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1995/028
在線閱讀:Full text available on IMF
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總結:This paper examines the determinants of growth for nine South Pacific countries during the period 1971-93, using the analytical framework of the Solow-Swan neoclassical growth model. Chamberlain's II-matrix estimator is used to account for unobserved country-specific heterogeneity in the growth process, and to control for errors-in-variables bias in calculations of real per-capita GDP. The speed of convergence of South Pacific countries to their respective steady-state levels of per-capita GDP, after controlling for the important regional effects of net international migration, is estimated at a relatively fast 4 percent per year. In addition, private and official transfers emanating from regional donor countries have kept the dispersion of real per-capita national disposable income constant over the period, despite a significant widening in the regional dispersion of real per-capita GDP.
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ISSN:1018-5941
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