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| | The Quest Continues - Finance & Development, March 2006 |
 | | While the contribution of the new growth models to the internal logic of the economics discipline has been lasting, the bloom came off the rose of the explicit use of new growth models for policy purposes in developing countries relatively quickly. |
 | | The new growth literature focused on the very long run and on incentives for expanding the technological frontier—not particularly useful for most developing countries, whose primary interest was in restoring short- to medium-term growth and accelerating technological catchup by adopting known innovations. |
 | | Growth theory can be viewed as the attempt to formalize the equations of motion of aggregate output, and growth empirics can be viewed as the related effort to estimate these equations of motion, including the "impulse response functions" showing how output responds to various shocks (for example, policy, institutions, geography, prices, and technical change). |
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