We study the impact of growth and growth accelerations on poverty and inequality in Indonesia using a new panel dataset …-mining sectors of the economy. We find that growth in non-mining significantly reduces poverty and inequality. In contrast, overall … growth and growth in mining appears to have no effect on poverty and inequality. We also identify growth acceleration …

growth before independence. We exploit various identification strategies to ensure these effects are causal. Second, using …-term effects on economic growth. …

have occurred frequently in the recent past. Unsurprisingly, adverse shocks reduce the short-term growth of constant …-term growth loss from adverse non-agricultural export price shocks and so are particularly ill-suited to mineral exporting …

This paper investigates the role of aid in mitigating the adverse effects of commodity export price shocks on growth in … commodity-dependent countries. Using a large cross-country dataset, we find that negative shocks matter for short-term growth … exchange rate substantially lower the adverse growth effect of shocks. While the mitigating effect of aid is significant in …

on economic growth is affected by wealth inequality. The results suggest (a) that opening to trade tends to accelerate … growth but (b) that the addition to growth depends inversely on the level of wealth inequality prior to opening. These … findings confirm the general importance for rapid growth in developing countries of reducing inequalities of opportunity. …

the growth of commodity exporters. This paper adopts panel cointegration methodology to explore longer term effects than …

Do openness to trade and higher levels of human capital promote faster productivity growth? That they do is a key … implication of several versions of endogenous growth theory. To answer the question we use panel data on 93 countries spanning the … on productivity growth. If the level of openness of an economy is doubled the underlying rate of technical progress will …

The study presents recent global evidence on the transformation of economic growth to poverty reduction in developing … countries, with emphasis on the role of income inequality. The focus is on the period since the early-mid-1990s when growth in … finds that on average income growth has been the major driving force behind both the declines and increases in poverty. The …

The current paper demonstrates a dichotomy of the growth response to changes in the barter terms of trade (TOT …