"Leapfrogging" refers to:
A) the interchangeability of capital and labour in the aggregate production function.
B) "one- upsmanship" by politicians who use growth statistics to help win elections.
C) the increased likelihood that a country with very high growth will have a recession, during which some other country will have the highest growth rate.
D) the tendency for a country's output per capita to catch up to, and then exceed, that of another country.
E) the typical irregular pattern of growth: rapid in some decades, and almost non- existent in others.

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Leapfrogging refers to the tendency for a country's output per capita to catch up to and then exceed that of another country. This can occur when a developing country quickly adopts advanced technologies and skips over the intermediate stages of development that other countries went through to achieve similar levels of productivity. This can lead to accelerated economic growth and potentially higher living standards for the population.

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