We investigate the relationship between unemployment and growth in China. We find considerable differences in the … China, furthermore, appears to be close to the level associated with optimal speed of transition. …

role of factor substitution in future Chinese growth. We argue that high growth in China can be supported in such a …We discuss the sustainability of Chinese high growth relative to growth experience elsewhere, and specifically Soviet … Russia in the 1950s to the 1960s by asking if the aggregate technology can eventually similarly constrain high growth …

. Salient results include the positive role played by firm size, industry size and industry growth on survival and yet the …The paper investigates the survival of newly created small and medium enterprises in Brazilian manufacturing taking as …

at the 8-digit product level from 1995 to 2005. I find that survival probabilities are affected by exporter …

chance of survival than those in second and third class. British passengers were more likely to perish than members of other …

The paper investigates survival patterns of Brazilian franchising firms during the 1994-1999 period. First, at a more … descriptive level one considered the (percentage) survival of newly created franchisors in the following years. The evidence … indicated a drastic decay in survival after only a few years and contrasts with the higher survival of firms in the franchising …

Financial constraints are an important impediment to the growth of small businesses. We study theoretically and … decisions and growth of principals, in the context of franchising. We find that a 30 percent decrease in average … waiting time, and slows their growth by around 10 percent, leading to a 10 percent reduction in franchised chain employment. …

A central issue in the study of sustainable development is the interplay of growth and sacrifice in a dynamic economy … provides the limit to growth. Maximin value is interpreted as a dynamic environmental-economic carrying capacity and current …

We make use of a bootstrap panel analysis of causality between energy use and economic growth for a sample of sixteen … African countries over the period 1988-2010. Our results show that growth and energy use are strongly linked in Africa …. However, African countries are heterogeneous and there is no “one way” recommendation about energy-growth relationship that …