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Another century of widening participation in the global marketplace and rising international flows of goods and capital is winding up. Yet there are still apparently durable differences in national productivity, even among the most advanced national economies. Many economies remain backward, and few of them have begun the process of catching up.
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Palia, D., Phelps, E.S. (2003). The Empirical Importance of Private Ownership for Economic Growth. In: Paganetto, L., Phelps, E.S. (eds) Finance, Research, Education and Growth. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403920232_2
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