Growth take-offs

Matthias Doepke

Growth take-offs

Economics

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Abstract

Following a phase of near-constant living standards lasting from Stone Age until the onset of the Industrial Revolution, a large number of countries have experienced growth takeoffs, in which stagnation gives way to sustained economic growth. What causes some countries to enter a growth takeoff while others remain poor? We discuss three mechanisms that can trigger a growth takeoff in a country previously trapped in poverty: fertility decline, structural change, and accelerating technological progress.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics
Editors	Steven Durlauf, Lawrence E Blume
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-349-58802-2
ISBN (Print)	978-0-333-78676-5
State	Published - 2008

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