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Growth, Investment, and Savings in the Arab Economies

By Amer Bisat

July 1, 1997

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Amer Bisat. Growth, Investment, and Savings in the Arab Economies, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1997) accessed September 18, 2024
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Summary

Sustaining a high rate of economic growth is the major policy issue facing the Arab economies. A detailed analysis of growth, investment, and savings for the period 1971-96, including through a growth accounting exercise, shows that increasing long-run growth requires improvements in both investment and domestic savings. In the past, the Arab region’s growth was overly reliant on volatile external sources of funding, and total factor productivity growth was too low. The paper discusses the policy priorities to overcome the legacy of poor growth.

Subject: Domestic savings, Economic growth, Growth accounting, Labor, National accounts, Production, Total factor productivity

Keywords: Arab, Capital share, Domestic savings, East Asia, Growth, Growth Accounting, Investment, Investment performance, Middle East and North Africa, Private sector investment, Savings, Savings-investment balance, Sound investment decision, TFP growth, TFP measure, Total factor productivity, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    36

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 1997/085

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA0851997

  • ISBN:

    9781451850710

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941