According to the Washington Consensus, developing countries’ growth would benefit from a reduction in tariffs and other … barriers to trade. But a backlash against this view now suggests that trade policies have little or no impact on growth. If … treatment, liberalizing tariffs on imported capital and intermediate goods, did lead to faster GDP growth, and by a margin …

towards investment in education and growth in output per capita, a significant portion of the gains from trade in non …-industrial nations was channelled towards population growth. …

sustained differences in population growth and income levels across countries. In industrial economies international trade …

output and achieve growth through extreme specialization in response to shifting comparative advantage. …

gains from trade have been directed towards investment in education and growth in income per capita, whereas a significant … portion of these gains in less developed economies have been channelled towards population growth. Cross-country regressions …

trade in explaining British living standards or growth rates. We construct a three-region model of the world in which … contrast is robust to a large range of parameter perturbations. Biased technological change and population growth were key in …

the context of two partial equilibrium endogenous growth models. In our first model, the scale of fickle outside … investment funds traces out a mean-variance tradeoff for the growth rate of the economy. In particular, the volatility of these … regulation of outside investment may increase growth. Our second model involves increasing returns and multiple equilibria. In …

research intensity and growth rate depend on the existence of the competitive fringe and take on the same values as in the … return and growth rate. …

In this paper, we develop a North-South endogenous growth model to examine three phases of development in the South …: imitation of Northern products; imitation and innovation; and finally, innovation only. In particular, the model has the …. First, because subsidies to Southern innovation benefit the North as well, it is beneficial to the North to pay for some of …

consumers, and what the growth potential of these goods is. While, all else equal, the North tends to lose more (or gain less …