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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