 | Ralph Landau, Timothy Taylor, Gavin Wright - 1996 - 484 pages
...opportunities for any sustained catch-up movement. To summarize our general proposition: countries' effective potentials for rapid productivity growth...country's effective potential for productivity growth. Yet another distinct group of factors governs the ability of countries to realize their respective... | |
 | Gerald M. Meier - 2004 - 264 pages
...process. Abramovitz and David (1996) summarize their general proposition about convergence: [Countries' effective potentials for rapid productivity growth...country's effective potential for productivity growth. Having regard to technological backwardness alone leads to the simple hypothesis about catch-up and... | |
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To summarize our general proposition: countries' effective potentials for rapid productivity growth by catch-up are not determined solely by the gaps in levels of technology, capital intensity, and efficient allocation that separate them from the productivity... 