DEFRAGMENTATION OF ECONOMIC GROWTH WITH A FOCUS ON DIVERSIFICATION: EVIDENCE FROM RUSSIAN ECONOMY

  • Andrey A. GNIDCHENKO Center for Macroeconomic Analysis and Short-Term Forecasting Institute of Economic Forecasting Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia

Abstract

In this paper, we develop a comprehensive analysis of diversification issues for Russian economy. Assessing diversification for nine different variables, we show that choice of a variable affects the result much, and that, unlike a popular opinion, equiproportional economic diversity measures are still useful in economic analysis. Developing a simple defragmentation of economic growth, we account for labor productivity and labor availability separately, and show that these components depend on different factors. We discover some factors that are rarely studied. We argue that they can become a hard constraint for long-term economic growth.

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Published
2011-06-30
How to Cite
GNIDCHENKO, Andrey A.. DEFRAGMENTATION OF ECONOMIC GROWTH WITH A FOCUS ON DIVERSIFICATION: EVIDENCE FROM RUSSIAN ECONOMY. Theoretical and Practical Research in Economic Fields, [S.l.], v. 2, n. 1, p. 44-80, june 2011. ISSN 2068-7710. Available at: <https://journals.aserspublishing.eu/tpref/article/view/1111>. Date accessed: 29 mar. 2024.