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Why Development Levels Differ:
The Sources of Differential Economic Growth in a Panel of
High and Low Income Countries

Charles R. Hulten
University of Maryland and NBER and Anders Isaksson
Research and Statistics Branch
United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)

September 2007

Acknowledgements:
We would like to thank the participants at the NBER Summer Institute 2006, as well as Nobuya
Haraguchi, for helpful comments and suggestions. Any remaining errors are our own.

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Abstract:
Average income per capita in the countries of the OECD was more

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