What makes growth sustained? / prepared by Andy Berg, Jonathan D. Ostry, and Jeromin Zettelmeyer.

We identify structural breaks in economic growth in 140 countries and use these to define "growth spells:" periods of high growth preceded by an upbreak and ending either with a downbreak or with the end of the sample. Growth spells tend to be shorter in African and Latin American countrie...

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Main Authors: Berg, Andrew (Author), Ostry, Jonathan D. (Jonathan David), 1962- (Author), Zettelmeyer, Jeromin (Author)
Corporate Author: International Monetary Fund. Research Department
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [Washington, D.C.?] : International Monetary Fund, 2008.
Series:IMF working paper ; WP/08/59.
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