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Sources of output growth in the countries of the Common Monetary Area and provinces of South Africa

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  • Dukhabandhu Sahoo
  • Auro Kumar Sahoo
  • Jayanti Behera
  • Diptimayee Mishra
  • Phendulwa Zikhona Makunga

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This paper aims to decompose the sources of growth in economies in the Southern African region's Common Monetary Area and in the provinces of South Africa. Decomposition results for the Common Monetary Area reveal that the growth of aggregate and sectoral gross domestic product is driven by input, without increasing efficiency in production or benefiting from technological progress, which is unsustainable. Negative technical change implies that countries are unable to reap the benefits from shifts in technology.

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  • Dukhabandhu Sahoo & Auro Kumar Sahoo & Jayanti Behera & Diptimayee Mishra & Phendulwa Zikhona Makunga, 2021. "Sources of output growth in the countries of the Common Monetary Area and provinces of South Africa," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2021-31, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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