Growth Accounting for a Technology Follower in a World of Ideas: The Case of Singapore

• Main Author: HOON, Hian Teck
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2010
• Subjects: Technological diffusion; Idea production function; Multifactor productivity growth; Asian Studies; Growth and Development
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/447
• Institution: Singapore Management University

We account for the sources of Singapore's growth by being explicit about the channels through which Singapore benefits from international R&D spillovers. We find that 61.5% of Singapore's real GDP per worker growth over the 1970-2004 period is due to multifactor productivity growth. Mo...