There is now a consensus that economic growth is a dominant determinant of poverty. That is, poverty reduction requires sustained economic growth significantly above the population growth so that per capita income continues to rise. Economic growth raises mean income and reduces the proportion...

This research was motivated by current constraints on macroeconomic policy-making in Indonesia. On the fiscal side, the government is burdened with debt and the pressure to maintain social expenditure. On the monetary side, there is a preoccupation with a lower inflation rate which conflicts...

Cointegration techniques are applied to a model of induced innovation based on the two-stage Constant Elasticity of Substitution (CES) production function. This approach results in direct tests of the inducement hypothesis, which are applied to agricultural data for the United Kingdom from 1953...