国际货币基金组织：融合需要什么？资本和金融的作用（英文版）

What is needed for poor countries to catch up with rich ones? This paper first documents the role of human capital, physical capital, and financial development in convergence in manufacturing labor productivity across countries, and then examines the influence of economic structure and financial development at the aggregate level. Using industry-level data from manufacturing industries in a large set of countries over the period 1980-2022, we show that manufacturing industries exhibit strong