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Influence of country‘s area on growth - implications
Possible improvement: inclusion of the share of agricultural production in GDP
Possible improvement: inclusion of population (or population density) growth -> empirical investigation of which countries are stuck in Malthusian trap (population growth exceeds output growth until starvation „checks“ population growth; see Begg, Fischer, Dornbusch (1997), ch. 30)
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