We discuss the sustainability of Chinese high growth relative to growth experience elsewhere, and specifically Soviet … sustainability of high Chinese growth. … Russia in the 1950s to the 1960s by asking if the aggregate technology can eventually similarly constrain high growth …

This paper summarizes assumptions made and results obtained in parts of the literature on welfare and sustainability … combinations. This taxonomy is used to organize results in welfare and sustainability accounting. The analysis illustrates how …

In the first part of the paper we look at economic growth in Africa over the past three decades. We divide the past …. Although the improved growth performance has helped to improve human development and reduce poverty, poverty levels remain high … in many countries and more needs to be done to make growth more “inclusive”.In the second part we estimate the trend …

Existing growth research provides little explanation for the very large differences in long-run growth performance … across OECD countries. We show that cognitive skills can account for growth differences within the OECD, whereas a range of … economic institutions and quantitative measures of tertiary education cannot. Under the growth model estimates and plausible …

We construct a tractable general equilibrium model of cumulative innovation and growth, in which new ideas strictly …

We study the relation between the off-shoring of intermediates and services and productivity growth in the Italian … off-shoring”) is beneficial for productivity growth, while the off-shoring of services is not. We also find that the way … productivity growth is there with our direct measures based on input-output data but disappears when either a broad measure or the …

retard economic growth, even to the point of leading to an economic collapse. Premature adult mortality may exacerbate …