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

   Public Debt and Growth

   Woo and Kumar · IMF Working Paper · 2010

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   1. Unchecked“The empirical results suggest an inverse relationship between initial debt and subsequent growth, controlling for other determinants of growth: on average, a 10 percentage point increase in the initial debt-to-GDP ratio is associated with a slowdown in annua…
   2. Unchecked“There is some evidence of nonlinearity with higher levels of initial debt having a proportionately larger negative effect on subsequent growth.”
   3. Unchecked“Analysis of the components of growth suggests that the adverse effect largely reflects a slowdown in labor productivity growth mainly due to reduced investment and slower growth of capital stock.”