ECON 318 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Japa, Capital Formation, Four Asian Tigers
9 Jul 2016
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Productivity, economic growth and information technology - lecture 1. Is china"s growth miracle over? federal reserve bank of san francisco. Hvistendahl, m. unnatural selection: choosing boys over girls and the consequences of a world full of men . Interest in economic growth has seen a huge revival in recent decades. In the post-war period economists focused on the cyclical management of the economy - almost taking economic growth for granted. The study of economic growth in the modern era has focused not just upon capital accumulation and productivity growth, but also very much on the development of human capital. In canada, for example, the reduction in regional income differences has been in part due to a reduction in the dispersion in educational attainments. Most recently, the focus on the physical capital aspect has moved toward the role of information technology. In the global context, the failure of some nations to grow economically can lead to humanitarian chaos.
