and promote economic growth in India. The first part provides a brief review of gender issues in the country. The second … raising female labour force participation with a package of pro-growth and pro-women policies could boost the growth rate by …

both an engine of growth and a potential barrier to it. As a result, growth is an inverse U-shaped function of the … standardization rate (and of competition). Second, we characterize the growth and welfare maximizing speed of standardization. We show …

This paper examines how economic stratification affects inequality and growth over time. It studies economies where …-wide linkages (complementary skills, knowledge spillovers). It compares growth and welfare when families are stratified into … slower growth in the short run, but to higher output or even productivity growth in the long run. This trade-off occurs in …

Finance is a vital ingredient for economic growth, but there can also be too much of it. This study investigates what … fifty years of data for OECD countries have to say about the role of the financial sector for economic growth and income … than boost growth. The composition of finance matters for growth. More credit to the private sector slows growth in most …