Understanding patterns of economic growth : searching for hills among plateaus, mountains, and plains

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Income Inequality and Macroeconomic Volatility: An Empirical Investigation (2005, methodology): “Equivalent results are obtained when we use as our measure of volatility the average of the absolute values of the changes in the rate of growth, as suggested by Pritchett (2000).”
A Cross-country Database For Sectoral Employment And Productivity in Asia and Latin America, 1950-2005 (2007, background): “But if labor is moving to a less productive industry (e.g. from manufacturing to personal services), this 13 See e.g. Pritchett (2000), Hausmann et al. (2005) and Jones and Olken (2005).”
What Remains of Cross-Country Convergence? (2018, background): “…to the existing theoretical literature on poverty traps, it is important to recognize that it is also quite different in that The empirical literature on growth spells took off after Pritchett (2000) demonstrated that the growth process, especially in developing economies, tends to be episodic.”
Asiaphoria Meets Regression to the Mean (2014, background): “…reform).12 An alternative to characterizing growth as a smoothly evolving function of linear determinants is to characterize the growth process as episodic, characterized by discrete shifts— accelerations and decelerations—from one growth state to another (Pritchett 2000, Jones and Olken 2008).”