Productivity Growth Capital Accumulation And The Banking Sector

Author : Ejaz Ghani
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Productivity Growth, Capital Accumulation, and the Banking Sector written by Ejaz Ghani and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1999 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "How did the East Asian miracle turn into one of the worst financial crises of the century? A case study of Malaysia provides some answers"--Cover.

Author : Syed Ejaz Ghani
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 25 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Productivity Growth, Capital Accumulation, and the Banking Sector written by Syed Ejaz Ghani and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the East Asian miracle turn into one of the worst financial crises of the century? A case study of Malaysia provides some answers.How did the East Asian miracle turn into one of the worst financial crises of the century? Ghani and Suri address the question using Malaysia as a case study.Many discussions of the East Asian crisis address proximate and short-run causes of the crisis, such as the current account deficit, exchange rate misalignment, and disproportionate short-run external debt relative to foreign exchange reserves. These indicators of vulnerability are themselves endogenous outcomes of deeper institutional features.Ghani and Suri argue that some long-term features of the development strategy that helped sustain high growth in the first place also contributed to the economy's increasing vulnerability. High output growth was driven by rapid growth in capital stock, for example. The banking sector played a critical role in transforming (and accelerating the transformation of) large savings into capital accumulation. But the banking sector may not have been allocating capital efficiently.Ghani and Suri find that the rapid growth in bank lending in Malaysia is negatively associated with total factor productivity growth. On the other hand, the economy's other structural strengths, such as openness to foreign direct investment and technology, helped improve productivity growth.Malaysia's exceptional growth record over the past quarter century was driven largely by the growth in physical capital stock. Total factor productivity growth may have slowed in the late 1990s, and sustaining high output growth will require greater emphasis on productivity improvements.Policies that encouraged the flow of foreign direct investment and better access to imported capital goods contributed to productivity growth. But rapid growth in bank lending relative to GDP may have slowed it.How policymakers can best slow the growth of credit is a question that remains unanswered.This paper - a product of the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Sector Unit, East Asia and Pacific Region - is part of a larger effort in the region to better understand past and future sources of growth. The authors may be contacted at [email protected] or [email protected].

Author : Thorsten Beck
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 51 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Finance and the Sources of Growth written by Thorsten Beck and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1999 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thorsten Beck
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Finance and the Sources of Growth written by Thorsten Beck and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Development of the banking sector exerts a large, causal impact on total factor productivity growth, which in turn causes GDP to grow. Whether banking development has a long-run effect on capital growth or private saving remains to be seen.Beck, Levine, and Loayza evaluate whether the level of development in the banking sector exerts a causal impact on economic growth and its sources- total factor productivity growth, physical capital accumulation, and private saving.They use (1) a pure cross-country instrumental variable estimator to extract the exogenous component of banking development and (2) a new panel technique that controls for country-specific effects and endogeneity. They find that:- Banks do exert a large, causal impact on total factor productivity growth, which feeds through to overall GDP growth.- The long-run links between banking development and both capital growth and private savings are more tenuous.This paper - a product of Finance, Development Research Group - is part of a larger effort in the group to understand the links between the financial system and economic growth.

Author : Alistair Dieppe
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 1464816093
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Productivity written by Alistair Dieppe and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2021-06-09 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The COVID-19 pandemic struck the global economy after a decade that featured a broad-based slowdown in productivity growth. Global Productivity: Trends, Drivers, and Policies presents the first comprehensive analysis of the evolution and drivers of productivity growth, examines the effects of COVID-19 on productivity, and discusses a wide range of policies needed to rekindle productivity growth. The book also provides a far-reaching data set of multiple measures of productivity for up to 164 advanced economies and emerging market and developing economies, and it introduces a new sectoral database of productivity. The World Bank has created an extraordinary book on productivity, covering a large group of countries and using a wide variety of data sources. There is an emphasis on emerging and developing economies, whereas the prior literature has concentrated on developed economies. The book seeks to understand growth patterns and quantify the role of (among other things) the reallocation of factors, technological change, and the impact of natural disasters, including the COVID-19 pandemic. This book is must-reading for specialists in emerging economies but also provides deep insights for anyone interested in economic growth and productivity. Martin Neil Baily Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution Former Chair, U.S. President’s Council of Economic Advisers This is an important book at a critical time. As the book notes, global productivity growth had already been slowing prior to the COVID-19 pandemic and collapses with the pandemic. If we want an effective recovery, we have to understand what was driving these long-run trends. The book presents a novel global approach to examining the levels, growth rates, and drivers of productivity growth. For anyone wanting to understand or influence productivity growth, this is an essential read. Nicholas Bloom William D. Eberle Professor of Economics, Stanford University The COVID-19 pandemic hit a global economy that was already struggling with an adverse pre-existing condition—slow productivity growth. This extraordinarily valuable and timely book brings considerable new evidence that shows the broad-based, long-standing nature of the slowdown. It is comprehensive, with an exceptional focus on emerging market and developing economies. Importantly, it shows how severe disasters (of which COVID-19 is just the latest) typically harm productivity. There are no silver bullets, but the book suggests sensible strategies to improve growth prospects. John Fernald Schroders Chaired Professor of European Competitiveness and Reform and Professor of Economics, INSEAD

Author : Robert Graham King
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 53 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Capital Fundamentalism, Economic Development, and Economic Growth written by Robert Graham King and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1994 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Should our research and policy advice be guided by a modern version of capital fundamentalism, in which capital and investment are viewed as the primary determinants of economic development and long- run growth? No. Capital accumulation seems to be part of the process of economic development, not its igniting source.

Author : Asli Demirguc-Kunt
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Finance, Financial Sector Policies, and Long-run Growth written by Asli Demirguc-Kunt and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2008 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: The first part of this paper reviews the literature on the relation between finance and growth. The second part of the paper reviews the literature on the historical and policy determinants of financial development. Governments play a central role in shaping the operation of financial systems and the degree to which large segments of the financial system have access to financial services. The paper discusses the relationship between financial sector policies and economic development.

Author : Mr.Sami Ben Naceur
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
ISBN 13 : 1484306325
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Financial Development and Source of Growth written by Mr.Sami Ben Naceur and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2017-06-30 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper examines how financial development affects the sources of growth—productivity and investment—using a sample of 145 countries for the period 1960-2011. We employ a range of econometric approaches, focusing on the CCA and MENA countries. The analysis looks beyond financial depth to capture the access, efficiency, stability, and openness dimensions of financial development. Yet even in this broad interpretation, financial development does not appear to be a magic bullet for economic growth. We cannot confirm earlier findings of an unambiguously positive relationship between financial development, investment, and productivity. The relationship is more complex. The influence of the different dimensions of financial development on the sources of growth varies across income levels and regions.

Author : Ross Levine
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Financial Development and Economic Growth written by Ross Levine and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) presents the full text of the December 2000 paper entitled "Financial Development and Economic Growth: An Overview," prepared by Mohsin S. Khan and Abdelhak S. Senhadji. The text is available in PDF format and the paper is part of the IMF's Working Paper series. This paper provides a review of literature on financial markets and discusses the relationship between financial development and economic growth.

Author : Biagio Bossone
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Financial Development and Industrial Capital Accumulation written by Biagio Bossone and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1999 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There may be a compelling discontinuity to financial sector development in that banks need to be supported early in development but need to be "weakened" later, at the expense of bank rents, to foster further development. The important question for policy is when and how to generate and manage this discontinuity so that it is not forced on society by costly and traumatic events such as bank failures.