New estimates of total factor productivity growth for developing and industrial countries
Nehru, Vikram, Dhareshwar, Ashok
The authors present new estimates of long-term total factor productivity (TFP) growth for 83 industrial and developing countries for 1960-87. These estimates are based on new data developed for the...
Are private capital flows to developing countries sustainable?
Dadush, Uri, Dhareshwar, Ashok, Johannes, Ron
The remarkable surge in private capital flow to developing countries since 1990 has greatly facilitated their rapid growth, at a time when OECD countries have been in, or passed through, recession....
Long term outlook for the world economy : issues and projections for the 1990s
Fardoust, Shahrokh, Dhareshwar, Ashok
The authors argue that, at the broad level of global analysis, there are good reasons to be optimistic about the 1990s. First, there are favorable supply side developments in many of the high income...
Economic shocks and the global environment
McCarthy, F. Desmond, Dhareshwar, Ashok
Policy formulation in most countries is complicated by the role of the external economic environment, especially during periods of great external shocks. The authors examine how individual countries...