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Growth in Switzerland: Can Better Growth Be Sustained?

By Anastassios Gagales

September 1, 2002

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Anastassios Gagales. Growth in Switzerland: Can Better Growth Be Sustained?, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2002) accessed November 8, 2024
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Summary

Swiss growth performance in the past quarter century has been mediocre. The paper finds that conditional income convergence contributes significantly to slow growth and the poor performance of the domestically oriented sectors has been a drag on growth. However, slow growth is not inescapable. Faster growth would require raising total factor productivity growth, which remains low by international standards, and the investment rate. Further progress in structural reform could sustain the underlying growth rate at about 2 percent in the next few years.

Subject: Economic sectors, Employment, Labor, Labor productivity, Manufacturing, Production, Productivity, Total factor productivity

Keywords: Aggregate productivity growth, Economic growth, Employment, Enterprise restructuring, Global, High-productivity sector, Investment rate, Labor productivity, Manufacturing, Productivity, Productivity gain, Productivity growth, Switzerland, Total factor productivity, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    26

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2002/153

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA1532002

  • ISBN:

    9781451857160

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941