Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Aleksejs Melihovs Author-X-Name-First: Aleksejs Author-X-Name-Last: Melihovs Author-Workplace-Name: Bank of Latvia Author-Name: Gundars Davidsons Author-X-Name-First: Gundars Author-X-Name-Last: Davidsons Author-Workplace-Name: Bank of Latvia Title: The Role of Production Progress and Human Capital in the Economic Growth of Latvia Abstract: The paper sets a goal to assess the significance of production progress and human capital for the Latvian economy and to estimate long-term growth rates of the country's economic development. The authors made an attempt to construct a production function using non-linear modelling. In order to improve the production function model for Latvia, the authors augmented the model by human capital approximation. Creation-Date: 2006-12-18 File-URL: https://www.bank.lv/public_files/images/img_lb/izdevumi/english/citas/Production_Progress_Human_Capital_Economic_Growth.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf File-URL: https://www.macroeconomics.lv/sites/default/files/production_progress_human_capital_economic_growth.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Number: 2006/03 Classification-JEL: C32, E23, J24, O47 Keywords: production function, non-linear modelling, human capital, total factor productivity X-File-Ref: https://repec.bank.lv/refs/wpaper200603.txt Handle: RePEc:ltv:wpaper:200603