Economic Growth in East Asia

Contribution of Technical Progress
to Economic Growth

		     Labor  Output per  Total Factor  TFP Share in
		     Force  Worker	Productivity  Output Growth
Sub-Suhara Africa     2.5     0.5	   -0.7	          -23.3
Middle East	      2.8     1.8	   -0.4	           -8.7
Latin America	      2.8     1.4	    0.1  	    2.4
East Asia	      2.6     4.1	    0.8	           11.9
South Asia            1.9     2.3	    0.7	           16.7
Industrial Countries  1.2     2.4           1.0	           27.8

Note: All, except Total Factor Productivity (TFP) Share, are average
percent growth per year, 1960-92.  TFP Share is average TFP growth
per year as a percent of average total output growth per year. 
Output is calculated in national prices. 


SourceBosworth, Collins, and Chen, Tables 1 and 4.