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Infrastructure and regional growth in the European Union
Crescenzi, Riccardo; Rodriguez-Pose, Andres - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
Transport infrastructure has represented one of the cornerstones of development and cohesion strategies in the European … Union (EU) and elsewhere in the world. However, despite the considerable funds devoted to it, its impact remains … controversial. This paper revisits the question of to what extent transport infrastructure endowment -- proxied by regional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084543
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Forbidden Fruits: The Political Economy of Science, Religion, and Growth
Bénabou, Roland; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
We analyze the joint dynamics of religious beliefs, scientific progress and coalitional politics along both religious and economic lines. History offers many examples of the recurring tensions between science and organized religion, but as part of the paper’s motivating evidence we also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011262883
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Price Distortions and Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
Anderson, Kym; Brückner, Markus - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
To what extent has Sub-Saharan Africa’s slow economic growth over the past five decades been due to price and trade policies that have discouraged production of agricultural relative to non-agricultural tradables? This paper uses a new set of estimates of policy distortions to relative prices...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009246604
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Trade Policy and Economic Growth: A Sceptic's Guide to the Cross-National Evidence
Rodríguez, Francisco; Rodrik, Dani - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
Do countries with lower policy-induced barriers to international trade grow faster, once other relevant country characteristics are controlled for? There exists a large empirical literature providing an affirmative answer to this question. We argue that methodological problems with the empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662074
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Demographic Change, Economic Growth and Social Welfare in Europe
Ermisch, John F; Joshi, Heather - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1987
This paper examines the economic rationale for concern about the falling rate of growth of Europe's population. It also assembles demographic and economic time-series data for the countries of Eastern and Western Europe during the postwar period. The consequences of demographic developments for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662094
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Services Policy Reform and Economic Growth in Transition Economies, 1990-2004
Eschenbach, Felix; Hoekman, Bernard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
infrastructure services, including telecommunications, power and transport, are highly correlated with inward FDI. Controlling for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662114
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Growth Strategies
Rodrik, Dani - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
This is an attempt to derive broad, strategic lessons from the diverse experience with economic growth in last 50 years. The paper revolves around two key arguments. One is that neo-classical economic analysis is a lot more flexible than its practitioners in the policy domain have generally...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662151
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Voracity and Growth
Lane, Philip R.; Tornell, Aaron - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
We analyse an economy that lacks a strong legal-political institutional infrastructure and is populated by multiple …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662300
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Growth and External Debt: A New Perspective on the African and Latin American Tragedies
Cohen, Daniel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997
This paper addresses two puzzles of the growth literature: the failure of standard growth equations to account for slow growth in Latin America and Africa; and the surprising failure of trade to explain growth when trade liberalization appears to play a significant role. The paper shows that: i)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662346
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Free Trade and Long-Run Growth
Ben-David, Dan; Loewy, Michael B - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995
What is the impact of movement towards free trade on output? Can this impact permanently affect output levels, and more importantly, will it have an impact on steady-state growth rates? This paper provides empirical evidence showing how countries have exhibited substantial increases in their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666425