misspecifications resulting from the omission of spatial linkages in standard empirical models of economic growth. Our dataset consists … of TFP estimates for 73 countries over the period 1960-2000, and we find that TFP growth rates and levels are positively … the Nelson and Phelps (1966) model shows that the impact of being located close to a country with high TFP growth rates is …

the socialist economy. Discussions focused on policies to stimulate economic growth indicate that the proper education of … capital. The high degree of development of education and science is considered one of the few highly valued achievements of … human capital and economic growth in Bulgaria for the years of socialism and the transition. The purpose of the thesis is to …

growth implication of dispersion of population distribution in terms of educational attainment levels. Based on a pooled 5 … dispersion index as well as average index of human capital positively influences productivity growth. Given limited social … resources for human capital investment, the finding implies that education policy that creates more dispersion in the human …

promote economic growth and competitiveness through creating and exploiting new knowledge. …

Common to the bulk of the “new” economic growth and development literature is the idea that the process by which less …-developed countries break out of a poverty trap and achieve steady, self-sustaining growth in real per-capita income is predicated on … explains its continuous formation over time? Third, how is such formation transformed into growth in real output and personal …

of the region in the light of the theories of economic growth and human capital and their empirical tests. It concludes … growth potential derived from the region's favourable endowment with human capital and implementing growth-enhancing economic …

aggregate and per capita GDP as a case study of recent models of endogenous growth, where "human capital" is the engine of … growth. By human capital we mean an intangible asset, best thought of as a stock of embodied and disembodied knowledge … comprising education, information, entrepreneurship, and productive and innovative skills, which is formed through investments in …

Maddison's international panel data show that technically it was the faster growth rate of the US economy that led to …