Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/46668 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
UPSE Discussion Paper No. 2007,01
Publisher: 
University of the Philippines, School of Economics (UPSE), Quezon City
Abstract: 
Why has the living standard of the Philippines relative to that of the U.S. not risen unlike its Asian neighbors? Using data on national income accounts and the workforce from the Penn World Table (version 6.1) and years of schooling from Barro and Lee (2000) as well as a simple neoclassical model and some empirical methods of analysis employed in growth economics, this paper submits three interconnected answers: The country has been stuck in a low-growth trajectory. It is headed for a low steady-state level of output per worker, which explains its slow rate of long-term growth. Most significantly, its total factor productivity, at 20.9 percent of that of the U.S., is horrendously low, which explains its low convergence point. Improving its TFP is thus the key to solving the country's low living standard.
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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