01828cas a2200265 a 4500 AALejournalIMF008058 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781451843019 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Khan, Mohsin. Sources of Economic Growth in East Asia : A Nonparametric Assessment / Mohsin Khan, Shigeru Iwata, Hiroshi Murao. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2002. 1 online resource (28 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students The conventional growth-accounting approach to estimating the sources of economic growth requires unrealistically strong assumptions about the competitiveness of factor markets and the form of the underlying aggregate production function. This paper outlines a new approach utilizing nonparametric derivative estimation techniques that does not require imposing these restrictive assumptions. The results for East Asian countries show that output elasticities of capital and labor are different from the income shares of these factors, and that the growth of total factor productivity over the period 1960-95 has been an important factor in the overall growth performance of these countries. Mode of access: Internet Iwata, Shigeru. Murao, Hiroshi. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2002/013 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2002/013/001.2002.issue-013-en.xml IMF e-Library