When assessing such policy recommendations, it must, however, be borne in mind that they are based not least on the extrapolation of differences in rates of productivity growth observed in the past. But historic figures for a specific range of countries cannot readily be applied to the future, since the pattern of catching-up and advanced countries may have changed significantly in the interim.
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