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Robert Barro on Growth

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The Convergence Force of the 1950s and 60s

In the early days, there was a big focus on capital. Accumulating human capital is perhaps at least as important as physical capital. I think part of it is because the quality of that human capital wasn't really very good. And we've learned that many economies like that were doing things very badly.

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