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1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Fiscal Policies and Political Economy

   Public Debt and Growth

   Woo and Kumar · Economica · 2015

   The paper examines a large panel of countries over four decades and finds that high initial public debt is significantly associated with slower subsequent long-run economic growth.

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   1. UncheckedHigh public debt is linked to slower growth mainly via weaker labour productivity growth, which in turn mostly reflects slower capital accumulation.“The adverse effect largely reflects a slowdown in labour productivity growth mainly due to slower capital accumulation.”

2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Fiscal Policies and Political Economy

   Debt and Economic Growth in Developing and Industrial Countries

   Schclarek · RePEc: Research Papers in Economics · 2005

   The paper empirically examines how debt relates to growth in developing and industrial economies, and looks at channels such as capital accumulation and productivity.

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   1. UncheckedIn developing countries, lower total external debt goes with faster growth, a link the paper attributes to public rather than private external debt.“For developing countries, we find that lower total external debt levels are associated with higher growth rates, and that this negative relationship is driven by the incidence of public external debt, and not by private external debt.”