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  "title": "Factor Endowment, Structural Coherence, and Economic Growth",
  "publication": "IMF Working Papers, June 1, 2012",
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  "summary": "This paper studies the linkage between structural coherence and economic growth. Structural coherence is defined as the degree that a country's industrial structure optimally reflects its factor endowment fundamentals.",
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      "heading": "Summary and research question",
      "content": "- Structural coherence is defined as the degree that a country's industrial structure optimally reflects its factor endowment fundamentals.\n- The paper studies the linkage between structural coherence and economic growth.\n- Author: Natasha X Che.\n- Publication date: June 1, 2012.\n- Format: IMF Working Paper No. 2012/165, Pages: 42, Issue: 165, Volume: 2012, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781475505139.001, ISBN: 9781475505139, ISSN: 1018-5941, Stock No: WPIEA2012165."
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      "heading": "Key empirical findings",
      "content": "- For the overall capital, the shares of capital intensive industries were significantly bigger with higher initial capital endowment and faster capital accumulation.\n- There is a positive relationship between a country's aggregate output growth and the degree of structural coherence.\n- Quantitative contribution: structural coherence with respect to the overall capital explains about 30% of the growth differential among sample countries."
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      "heading": "Themes and variables analyzed",
      "content": "- Capital Accumulation\n- capital endowment\n- capital intensity\n- Capital productivity\n- aggregate output\n- Economic Growth (growth rate)\n- Total factor productivity\n- Employment and Labor\n- Human capital\n- Information technology in revenue administration\n- output share, resource allocation, share regression\n- Structural Change and Structural Coherence\n- Dependent variable considerations"
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      "content": "- Structural coherence linked to factor endowment fundamentals appears to be an important determinant of differences in aggregate output growth across countries.\n- Capital-related structural coherence (overall capital) is quantitatively sizeable, accounting for about 30% of cross-country growth differentials in the sample.\n\nIMF Working Paper: Natasha X Che, \"Factor Endowment, Structural Coherence, and Economic Growth\", June 1, 2012, Working Paper No. 2012/165, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781475505139.001\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- wp12165\n  - wp12165 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - wp12165 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n\n---\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/wp/issues/2016/12/31/factor-endowment-structural-coherence-and-economic-growth-26021"
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    "Published: June 1, 2012",
    "Series: IMF Working Papers",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781475505139.001",
    "Structural coherence is defined as the degree that a country's industrial structure optimally reflects its factor endowment fundamentals.",
    "The paper studies the linkage between structural coherence and economic growth.",
    "Author: Natasha X Che.",
    "Publication date: June 1, 2012.",
    "Format: IMF Working Paper No. 2012/165, Pages: 42, Issue: 165, Volume: 2012, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781475505139.001, ISBN: 9781475505139, ISSN: 1018-5941, Stock No: WPIEA2012165.",
    "For the overall capital, the shares of capital intensive industries were significantly bigger with higher initial capital endowment and faster capital accumulation.",
    "There is a positive relationship between a country's aggregate output growth and the degree of structural coherence.",
    "Quantitative contribution: structural coherence with respect to the overall capital explains about 30% of the growth differential among sample countries.",
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