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Macroeconomics and Growth Policies

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Jayati Ghosh
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This United Nations Background Note on Macroeconomics and Growth provides practical guidance on how to operationalize alternative equitable and employment-generating macroeconomic and growth policies in National Development Strategies. This Policy Note has been developed in cooperation with UN agencies, and has been officially reviewed by distinguished academics/ development specialists such as Jose Antonio Ocampo, Jomo K.S. and Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz.

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Paper provided by United Nations, Department of Economics and Social Affairs in its series Policy Notes with number 2.

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Length: 43 pages
Date of creation: Jul 2007
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Keywords: macroeconomics; growth; development planning;

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O1 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development
O2 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Development Planning and Policy
E0 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General
H0 - Public Economics - - General

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