| Literature DB >> 20419074 |
David E Bloom1, David Canning, Linlin Hu, Yuanli Liu, Ajay Mahal, Winnie Yip.
Abstract
We find that a cross-country model of economic growth successfully tracks the growth takeoffs in China and India. The major drivers of the predicted takeoffs are improved health, increased openness to trade, and a rising labor force-to-population ratio due to fertility decline. We also explore the effect of the reallocation of labor from low-productivity agriculture to the higher-productivity industry and service sectors. Including the money value of longevity improvements in a measure of full income reduces the gap between the magnitude of China's takeoff relative to India's due to the relative stagnation in life expectancy in China since 1980.Entities:
Year: 2010 PMID： 20419074 PMCID： PMC2857320 DOI： 10.1016/j.jce.2009.11.002
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Comp Econ ISSN： 0147-5967