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Economic Freedom, TFP and Growth: Comparative Analysis of GCC and East Asian Newly Industrialized Economies (NIEs)
2018
Academic Journal of Business
unpublished
This study tests empirically the contribution of economic freedom in explaining the observed gap in GDP per worker between GCC countries and East Asian NIEs. It uses both «Fraser Institute» and «Heritage Foundation» indexes in their aggregated and disaggregated forms and fi nds robust evidence that lower economic freedom in GCC region is a major source behind its low productivity compared to East Asian NIEs, over the last fi ve decades. The bulk of this eff ect transmits through Total Factors
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